September 2012 Entries

Backup Azure Tables with the Enzo Backup API

In case you missed it, you can now backup (and restore) Azure Tables and SQL Databases using an API directly. The features available through the API can be found here: http://www.bluesyntax.net/b... and the online help for the API is here: http://www.bluesyntax.net/E... Backing up Azure Tables can’t be any easier than with the Enzo Backup API. Here is a sample code that does the trick: // Create the backup helper class. The constructor automatically sets the ......
Posted On Friday, September 21, 2012 9:43 AM | Comments (0)

Backup Azure Tables, schedule Azure scripts… and more

Well – months of effort are now officially over… or should I say it’s just the beginning? Enzo Cloud Backup 2.0 (beta) is now officially out!!! This tool will let you do the following: * Backup SQL Database (and SQL Server to a limited extend) * Backup Azure Tables * Restore SQL Backups into another SQL environment * Restore Azure Tables in Azure Storage, or SQL Environment * Manage and schedule database maintenance scripts * Drop database schema containers (with preview) for SaaS environments * ......
Posted On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 3:22 AM | Comments (0)

Cloud Computing Forces Better Design Practices

Is cloud computing simply different than on premise development, or is cloud computing actually forcing you to create better applications than you normally would? In other words, is cloud computing merely imposing different design principles, or forcing better design principles? A little while back I got into a discussion with a developer in which I was arguing that cloud computing, and specifically Windows Azure in his case, was forcing developers to adopt better design principles. His opinion was ......
Posted On Saturday, September 1, 2012 4:31 PM | Comments (0)