SQL Azure & ACID Transactions: back to 2001

I meant to write about this since I read about it a little back in July, today is the day.

You know I love Microsoft SQL Azure.

The technology impressed me when it was released.  Until then Azure contained only Azure storage.  Azure Storage is a...

Forrester: SQL Azure Raises The Bar On Cloud Databases

November 2nd 2010, Forester Research published a report around Microsoft SQL Azure.  The report can be found on Microsoft web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/itanalyst/docs/11-02-10SQLAzure.PDF

Basically, they interviewed 26 companies using the technology and concluded that:

• SQL Azure is reliable
• It delivers for small to medium scenarios
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Internet Explorer 9 – Beta Update

An update to Internet Explorer 9 Beta is available from Microsoft as of yesterday (November 23rd 2010).

This is an update to the full browser as opposed to the developer preview build which isn’t the full Internet Explore, although the preview build does work side-by-side with any other version...

ADFS 2.0 Step by Step and How To guides

Microsoft released a series of document  guiding on how to use ADFS 2.0:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd727938(WS.10).aspx

However useful my blog series on how to setup ADFS 2.0 to be used with Windows Azure was, I’m sure those guides will also be useful ;)

Sharing Data Contracts between clients & servers with WCF Data Services

I’ve been blogging a bit about the OData protocol put forward by Microsoft and even wrote an article about it on Code Project.  That article is supposed to be followed by others about WCF Data Services, the .NET implementation of OData, well…  stay tuned!

I love...