Roger Doherty's Windows Azure Blog
Work blog for Roger Doherty, Sr. Program Manger, SQL Server Customer Experience Team
Visual Studio 2008 for DB Pros "GDR" Release Announced
At last, Visual Studio 2008 for DB Pros is fully in sync with the SQL Server 2008 release. The new...
Author: rdoherty Date: 11/26/2008
SQL Server 2008 Top 10 List for Developers
Well now that SQL Server 2008 has shipped, Zach and I are starting to put the finishing touches on...
Author: rdoherty Date: 09/03/2008
Demystifying Spatial Support in SQL Server 2008
In our last series of posts Zach and I talked about using SQL Server's new FILESTREAM support to...
Author: rdoherty Date: 10/28/2007
Handling NULL instances of varbinary(max) FILESTREAM columns
The table structure I proposed in my last post used the following column definition for my...
Author: rdoherty Date: 10/18/2007
SQL Server 2008 - The Engine that Powers Immersive User Experiences
One of the things Zach and I are trying to accomplish is to get developers to understand that SQL...
Author: rdoherty Date: 10/10/2007
SQL Server 2008 Evangelism Kicks Off
It's hard to believe that SQL Server 2005 has been out there for a couple of years, but it has....
Author: rdoherty Date: 09/06/2007
Configuring a Service Principle Name (SPN) for an SSRS application pool
In my last post I talked about associating the SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services (SSRS) application...
Author: rdoherty Date: 07/26/2006
Connecting to Data Sources outside a Firewall with SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services
In my last post I discussed how to configure database security on two SQL Server 2005 instances...
Author: rdoherty Date: 07/20/2006
Hot Standby Security Configuration for Operational Reporting
In my last post I talked about how I used SQL Server 2005 log shipping to create a hot standby of...
Author: rdoherty Date: 07/12/2006
Log Shipping and Operational Reporting
In my last post I introduced the first phase of the Airframe RA project called Operational...
Author: rdoherty Date: 06/30/2006
Reporting and Analytics Dogfood - Intro
Well I have to apologize for my long absence. I'm just not a very consistent blogger. I'll just have...
Author: rdoherty Date: 06/30/2006
Burritos and SSIS 2005 Data Flow Tasks...
How are these two topics possibly related you ask? Well, I'm in Mexico City, I'm eating a burrito,...
Author: rdoherty Date: 03/31/2005
Sourcing XML Data in SSIS 2005
So picking up from where I left off in my last post, I want to talk about my experience using the...
Author: rdoherty Date: 03/16/2005
MMM - Dogfood..... SSIS in Action
We use a really unattractive term here at Microsoft to describe the use of pre-release software...
Author: rdoherty Date: 03/01/2005