Category Archives: AZURE

Revised Windows Azure Portal: 2nd August 2011

Microsoft Azure team has come nicely with revised Windows Azure Portal. Some of the new features of portal are as below, 1. The portal is now can be worked with 11 different languages. Supported language are listed on left top before billing.     2. Performance improvement by increasing isolated storage quota. When you openContinueContinue reading “Revised Windows Azure Portal: 2nd August 2011”

Fetching Data from SQL Azure table in Windows 7.1 [Mango] Phone using WCF Data Service

In this article, we will discuss about how to consume data from cloud [SQL Azure] in a Windows 7.1 [Mango] phone. SQL Azure and Windows 7.1 [Mango] phones are two common terms that you can hear about from many tech-savvy people. So I thought it is the right time to integrate these technologies. In thisContinueContinue reading “Fetching Data from SQL Azure table in Windows 7.1 [Mango] Phone using WCF Data Service”

Billing in SQL Azure

1. Web edition databases are billed at the 1GB rate for databases below 1GB of total data or at 5GB rate for databases between 1GB and 5GB size. 2. Business edition databases are billed at 10GB increments (10GB, 20, 30, 40 and 50GB). In a particular day billing is done on the pick DB size.ContinueContinue reading “Billing in SQL Azure”

Different Data Base Editions in SQL Azure

There are two Data Base Editions in SQL Azure. Web Edition Relational Database includes: · Up to 5 GB of T-SQL based relational database* · Self-managed DB, auto high availability and fault tolerance · Support existing tools like Visual Studio, SSMS, SSIS, BCP · Best suited for Web application, Departmental custom apps Business Edition DBContinueContinue reading “Different Data Base Editions in SQL Azure”

SQL Azure Architecture

SQL Azure resides in Microsoft Data center provides relational database to application with four layer of abstraction. Four layers of abstraction can be depicted as below, Client Layer This layer is closest to the application. SQL Azure connects with client application with Tabular Data Stream interface in exactly the same way SQL Server does. ClientContinueContinue reading “SQL Azure Architecture”

Federation in SQL Azure

Federation is introduced in SQL Azure for scalability. Federation helps both admin and developers to scale data. It helps admin by making easier in repartitioning and redistributing of data. It helps developers in routing layer and sharding of data. It helps in routing without application downtime. Federation is basic scaling objects in SQL Azure Database.ContinueContinue reading “Federation in SQL Azure”

Windows Azure for Developers Task 14 : Working with Windows Azure BLOB storage

There are plenty of articles and blog posts about theoretical concept of BLOB are already available. So I am not going to rediscover the wheel. What could you expect from this post is a code walkthrough to perform 1. Insert Image in BLOB 2. Delete Image from BLOB 3. Fetch Image from BLOB 4. CreateContinueContinue reading “Windows Azure for Developers Task 14 : Working with Windows Azure BLOB storage”

Windows Azure for Developers Task 13: SetConfigurationSettingPublisher needs to be called before FromConfiguration Setting can be used error [Other Solution]

I would like to thank Neil Mackenzie for this post. His input on below exception [as comment in my previous post ] is content of this post . In my previous post, I suggested solution of above exception , and I got a comment from one of my reader that there is an easier wayContinueContinue reading “Windows Azure for Developers Task 13: SetConfigurationSettingPublisher needs to be called before FromConfiguration Setting can be used error [Other Solution]”

Windows Azure for Developers Task 12: SetConfigurationSettingPublisher needs to be called before FromConfiguration Setting can be used error

Have you spent your hours getting rid of below exception ? I spent. So in this blog post, I am trying to save your time. Very first let us understand why this error occurs? Azure application runs in Full IIS model from SDK 1.3 onwards. In simple English we can say that from SDK 1.3ContinueContinue reading “Windows Azure for Developers Task 12: SetConfigurationSettingPublisher needs to be called before FromConfiguration Setting can be used error”