Tag Archives: Cloud

SQL Azure – Keeping up with a Moving Target

Moving your data to the (public) cloud necessarily involves relinquishing some control over the setup and maintenance of the environment in which your data is hosted. Cloud-based hosting services such as Microsoft Azure are effectively just scalable shared hosting providers. … Continue reading

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Spatial Applications in Windows Azure Redux (including Denali)

Several other people have already written on the subject of writing an Azure application that makes use of the SQL Server spatial datatypes. See, for example, Johannes Kebeck’s or Rex Hansen’s articles. However, having tried to answer a question on … Continue reading

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