A while back, the Azure Mobile Services team announced and released the early bits for supporting offline data sync with Azure Mobile Services using SQLite as an offline store(see: Using offline data sync in Mobile Services). I got more than a couple queries if it’s a good alternative to Sync Framework. Why use SQL or […]

Microsoft have just started releasing an avalanche of materials for the upcoming release of SQL Server 2012. First is the Second Draft Preview of the book Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2012.               PART I DATABASE ADMINISTRATION               1. Denali Editions and Enhancements           2. High Availability and Disaster Recovery Enhancements           3. Scalability and Performance […]

Here’s a new video from Mark Scurrell that provides an overview of the SQL Azure Data Sync Service capabilities and it’s target scenarios. To view online, see: Microsoft Showcase: Mark Scurrell Gives a Demonstration of SQL Azure Data Sync Video Download Link: MP4 For other videos on the SQL Azure Data Sync Service, see: SQL […]

The SQL Azure Data Sync Team has just added two new videos on Channel 9. The two new videos cover using SQL Azure Data Sync in a Cloud-to-Cloud scenario and an On-Premise-to-Cloud Scenario. Synchronize Data across On-Premise and Cloud (E2C) | SQL Azure Data Sync | Channel 9 About the Video: This is second in […]

                                  Microsoft Office 365: Connect and Collaborate Virtually Anywhere, Anytime (ISBN 9780735656949), by Katherine Murray Source: Free eBook: Microsoft Office 365: Connect and Collaborate Virtually Anywhere, Anytime – Microsoft Press – Site Home – MSDN Blogs