MongoDB to the Windows Azure cloud

In my previous post, it is mentioned the need of NoSQL product from Microsoft. I did some Googling and found several interesting posts where Microsoft and 10gen (one of the famous document oriented database vendors who invented MongoDB) has come to a collaboration to bring MongoDB to the Windows Azure cloud. Below are the links found related to Microsoft and MongoDB.

MongoDB on Azure Cloud Services

Going NoSQL with MongoDB

Future versions of SQL Server?

It is publicly known fact that RDBMSs have well known limitations when it comes to unstructured data management. This is the reason to emerged new database technologies like NoSQL. It is true that NoSQL is not a replacement for RDBMS. However the time has come to include NoSQL features into RDBMS products (then it can’t be called it as RDBMS) or introduce brand new NoSQL product from RDBMS vendors. We need to wait and see how Microsoft react to these new technology trends and how SQL Server change accordingly. Oracle has already announced their NoSQL version called Oracle NoSQL Database. Will Microsoft come up with new NoSQL product?

Know about your SQL Server memory

Knowing about computer memory management is the basis to learn SQL Server memory architecture. Troubleshooting SQL Server memory is the topic which is not being discussed more often. Last couple of days I spent more time on reading SQL Server memory related articles, blogs and books. In this I got to know about deprecated memory feature used in SQL Server 2008 R2 and previous versions. That is “AWE Enable” option. This feature is no more in SQL Server 2012. I found below posts on SQL Server memory and thought of sharing.

SQL Server 2012 Memory Manager KB articles
Pushing the Limits of Windows: Virtual Memory
Pushing the Limits of Windows: Physical Memory