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[EN] Sounds of SQL

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I’m always, always exciting of any new community activity. Few months ago I was invited for SQL Hangout  – series of Google Hangout Videocast provided by Boris Hristov {TWITTER|BLOG} Bulgarian SQL Server MVP. My episode have number #008 and recently Boris published episode #024. You can fing all of those at his blog.

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On last day of SQL Relay 2014 Autumn Tour, in London, friend of mine and active member of UK SQL Server User Group informed me, and very quickly invited for his new activity. Sounds of SQL is a fantastic project running under Mark Pryce-Maher {TWITTER|BLOG|LINKEDIN} invention. How it works? Mark catched almost all speakers on last day of our conference, and steal five minutes for short interview. Results?

Really good! First of series of 5-min interviews is ready and you can listen, and download from the Sounds of SQL project site HERE (site is hosted on Microsoft Azure Services!). And here is the result:

Matt Dowle is the main author of the data.table package for R. Matt has worked for some of the world’s largest financial organizations and has been programming in R for over a decade. Check out his talk from the R conference in LA earlier this year.  http://datascience.la/matt-dowles-data-table-talk-from-user-2014/ Matt has kindly given us at 10% of coupon ‘MY-DATATABLE-COUPON’ for his training course on Data Camp:  https://www.datacamp.com/courses/data-analysis-the-data-table-way?referrer=GitHubWiki

Please add this page for favorites, follow twitter accout: @SoundsOfSQL and enjoy!

[EN] 00:00 Saturday, 29th March – The Day of GWAB

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It’s Midnight of March, 29th. Today is the GWAB Day. W0000t?

GWAB_logoGWAB – better known as Global Windows Azure Bootcamp is the second and last global event oriented to Windows Azure (keep mind for news from BUILD Conference in USA). One Year ago I was an attendee of FIRST AND ONLY ONE event in Poland, in Wroclaw. We played with rendering project and for few hours we have been in TOP10 in the World! This year is a little different, especially that I’m not only attendee, I’m speaking too.

GWAB – “In April of 2013 we held the first Global Windows Azure Bootcamp at more than 90 locations around the globe! This year we are again again offering up a one day deep dive class to help thousands of people get up to speed on developing Cloud Computing Applications for Windows Azure. In addition to this great learning opportunity the hands on labs are pooling ahuge global compute farm to perform diabetes research.”

In Poland this year GWAB will be held in four cities Wrocław, Warsaw, Katowice and Szczecin. Most important and best place for it is of course in Wrocław (my city). But we are very happy to having competitors in different cities, especially that in all cities organizers focusing on different subjects and values of Microsoft Cloud Services. Of course based on different time zones – GWAB is now running and statistics too:

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Out timm will join for this global event in next nine ours. Who is in our team? Great, great local community folks, influencers, leaders of local user groups, speakers, and more, more, more: Łukasz Gąsior {@lukaszgasior}, Gosia Borzęcka {@GosiaBorzecka}, Mirosław Pragłowski {@mpraglowski} and Paweł Łukasik {@pawel_lukasik}. And yes, I know no easy names for foreigners… What we will do? We prepared full, looong busy day with several sessions, unlimited coffee, lunch and of course unlimited level of fun. Here is our agenda:

09:15 | Superfarm Experiment | Łukasz Gąsior
09:45 | Introduction to Windows Azure | Gosia Borzęcka
11:00 | YouTube in Polish means Media Services in Cloud | Paweł Łukasik
12:30 | Windows Azure SQL Server Tips and Tricks | Tobiasz J. Koprowski
14:30 | Windows Azure Service Bus | Łukasz Gąsior
16:30 | Azure without ‘clickology’ | Mirosław Pragłowski
18:15 | Counting Azure | Paweł Łukasik

Exciting! And here is the link for our event site: http://gwab-2014.codingtv.pl/

[EN]/[ES] Windows Azure SDK v.2.2 is available

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LOGO__WindowsAzureNewfullOn 17th October Microsoft released new version of Windows Azure SDK for .NET (both for Visual Studio 2012 and 2013). What is WASDK?  It’a spesial package which can help developers for using Windows Azure Services, such as Windows Azure Storage, Service Bus, Caching, Web Sites, Cloud Services and more. What’s new with this version? Full information You can find on site, but here is “the snapshot” from this site:

The Windows Azure SDK for .NET version number (2.2) is determined by the core Windows Azure service runtime assembly using semantic versioning. Other client libraries packaged inside the Windows Azure SDK for .NET, along with their respective NuGet packages, follow independent versioning based on the semantic versioning scheme. The Windows Azure SDK for .NET 2.2 includes Windows Azure Storage 2.1.0.2, Windows Azure Service Bus 2.1.3, Windows Azure Caching 2.1.0, and Windows Azure Configuration Manager 2.0.1 libraries. You can also download these libraries from their respective NuGet packages.

You can use the tools in the Windows Azure SDK to run, test, debug, and fine-tune your application before you deploy it as a cloud service to Windows Azure. The Windows Azure SDK includes the following tools:

  • Windows Azure compute emulator – A tool that locally emulates the environment in which cloud services run.
  • Windows Azure storage emulator – A tool that locally emulates the services of Windows Azure storage.
  • CSPack – A tool that creates an application package that can be deployed to Windows Azure.
  • CSUpload – A tool that is used to upload VHD files and service certificates to Windows Azure.
  • CSEncrypt – A tool that is used to encrypt the password for remote desktop connections.
  • CSRun – A tool that is used to start the compute emulator with the appropriate application package.
  • DSinit – initializes Windows Azure storage emulator in the local environment.

How You can install it? In few simple steps:

Firstly You should go to Windows Azure SDK Download site {http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/downloads/}, next download and run Microsoft Web Platform Installer file for VS2012 or VC2013.

 

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Pic. 01 | Executing Microsoft Web Platform Installer.

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Pic. 02 | If You using different location than English, should be prepared for messages located in Your language {on my systems in Spanish)

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Pic. 03 | Here are basic information about this release with links for more information

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Pic. 04 | Basic configuration, at this moment we can leave this with default settings, but we should stop at sixth line, where we can choose default language for installed software, even in this case Spanish (Español) is not good choice. Always English wis better in dev environment…

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Pic. 05 | Especialmente, oops sorry. Especially that next screens are in “location language” and we can be surprise – and always we can say ‘challenge accepted’. First part of summary what we wil install: package for SQL Server 2012, Web Deploy 3.5, Authoring Tools and Tools for Visual Studio 2012, and Azure Emulator.

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Pic. 06 | Installation begin

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Pic. 07 | Installed Database for WASDK for Visual Studio 2012 is… SQL Server 2012 SP 1

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Pic. 08 | Finito, that means final screen for this part, now after click on Continuar {Continue}…

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Pic.09 | … we jump to Windows Azure site for easy way to create account (if You don’t have one)

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Pic. 10 | But it’s not the end. Behing the web site, instalator giving us full summery of oftallation, and another button Finalizar {Finish}.

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Pic. 11 | After click we jump to anothe menu where we canchoose axtre tools for WASDK, such as cross-platform Command Line Tool, PowerShell Tools, and libraries for PHP, Node.js and Ruby.

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Pic. 12 | I choose two of five for installation

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Pic. 13 | Pre-Installation summary – with license links and size of files.

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Pic. 14 | Installation process

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Pic. 15 | And final of final summary.

 

A little more information about this edition (again just in snapshot):

New Features in the SDK

  • Visual Studio 2013 is supported in SDK Version 2.2
  • Sign in to connect to Windows Azure
  • Windows Azure Web Sites support in Visual Studio
  • Remote debugging for Windows Azure Cloud Services (preview)
  • TopologyBlast
  • Windows Azure Service Bus

Known Issues

  • Remote debugging may fail to attach to an existing Cloud Service
  • Side-by-Side Cloud Service Debugging works with projects built with 1.7 and later versions of the SDK
  • CSRun requires an elevated command prompt
  • Integrated Sign In to Windows Azure Using the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio 2.2
  •           No Windows Azure Subscriptions were added
  •           Databases and Mobile Services not listed in Server Explorer
  •           Unable to view multiple accounts in Multi-account sign in
  •           Duplicate web sites listed in Server Explorer
  •           Unable to sign out after signing in with a federated account
  •           Account-based access subject to expiration

For more information go HERE and HERE. End ENJOY!!