Tag Archives: SQL Azure

An Azure Outage

Posted on March 14, 2012 by way0utwest

There was a Windows Azure outage on Feb 29, which resulted in the management service being down for about 8 hours. The actual virtual machines that most customers had were unaffected, but the ability to perform management functions was down for … Continue reading →

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Azure is Down

Posted on February 29, 2012 by way0utwest

I saw a note about an outage on Windows Azure, apparently one that’s been going on for seven hours. Once again it seems that February 29 has struck again with a computer issue, and it makes me worry that if … Continue reading →

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NewSQL Can Save the World

Posted on July 26, 2011 by way0utwest

Michael Stonebraker, a database pioneer and researcher, recently said that Facebook’s implementation of MySQL was “a fate worse than death,” and they ought to rewrite their entire infrastructure. I think that analogy is a bit extreme. That statement also shows me … Continue reading →

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A SQL Azure Customer

Posted on January 26, 2011 by way0utwest

Not me, though I’m not necessarily against Azure in principle. I had a friend ask me for a SQL Server hosting provider the other day, saying they had built a web front end, and had a web host, but were … Continue reading →

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