The Financial DBA

The future of the DBA might include lots of asset tracking and financial meetings.

A View of the Cloud

Today Steve Jones looks at how we can better build software by considering the cloud.

Databases in Azure… Where to begin? Create a Database and log in!

Ready to create your first Database in Azure. Here are the step by step instructions with plenty of definitions and terms.

Azure Data Factory

The Process to Provision and Configure Azure SQL PaaS

This document describes the process to provision a SQL Azure server manually. While it is expected that most servers will be provisioned using automation, DBA's must have the skills and know the process to perform the same provisioning manually.

Cloud Security Issues

The cloud is always going to be a challenge for security, but is it harder or easier than on premises? Steve Jones has a few comments.

Two Days Off

Verizon is taking their cloud service offline for maintenance for two days. Steve Jones doesn't think that sounds good.

Deleting Files in the Cloud

The public perception is that, when something is deleted, it no longer exists. Often that's not really the case; the data you serve up to the cloud can be stored out there indefinitely, no matter how hard to try to delete it. Rob Sheldon investigates, and finds the cloud a worryingly public place.

The Community Cloud

The 'Community Cloud' sounds, on first impression, like marketing-speak for some untried novelty, but in fact it is already around, and working well for governments and healthcare in particular. Bob Sheldon investigates, and is encouraged to find groups of organisations who have cooperated to create secure and resilient cloud-based services.

Version Control as a Cloud Service

Robert Sheldon wonders if cloud-based version control still too risky for a service that must be secure, and risk-free?