Deploying a SQL Database to a Remote Hosting Environment

Posted on December 30th, 2006 mitch  Print 1 comment

[via ScottGu]

More great stuff from the Microsoft SQL Server development team:

This week the SQL Server team published the release candidate of a new SQL Server Hosting Toolkit that will make it much, much easier to deploy your SQL solutions remotely to a hosted environment.  The toolkit allows you to work with SQL Express, SQL Server 2000, and SQL Server 2005 databases locally, and then easily transfer your schema and data and install them into a shared hosting remote SQL Server account.

Take a look at Scott's article to learn more about the remote publishing process.

For those of us that host our sites at a remote ISP, this tool will be of tremendous value.  Speaking from experience, the normal build/stage/production cycle for a web solution becomes much more complicated to implement when you have little control over the final production environment.

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Anniversaries

Posted on December 30th, 2006 mitch  Print 2 comments

Greetings Everyone,

I have two anniversaries to celebrate in the next few days:

1) My blog is one year old today.

I posted my first article, exactly 12 months ago, today.  It has been very interesting and exciting to meet people from around the world who work with the same systems that I do, and who encounter many of the same problems.  I have learned a tremendous amount from other people's blogs over the past couple of years and I hope that some of my information has been valuable to others as well.

2) On January 4th, I will have been in the computer business for 23 years.

While in college, I went to work for a small firm that sold computer hardware and software and while I was obtaining an education that would allow me to become an IBM mainframe COBOL programmer, I was also figuring out how "those PC things actually worked."  Needless to say, I never wrote a line of production COBOL code and I'm pretty sure the world continued to spin happily around its axis without ever realizing something was amiss. ;)

It is a great time to be in the computer industry and I think 2007 will be filled with both promise and excitement.

Have a happy and safe New Year.

Mitch

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