Huey and Wegner Migrate Us to SQL Azure
George Huey and Wade Wegner from Microsoft talk to Carl and Richard about George's creation, the SQL Azure Migration Wizard, a free tool that will save you countless hours when migrating SQL Server databases to SQL Azure.
Guests:
George Huey
George Huey is a principal architect for the Developer & Platform Evangelism group at Microsoft. George works with companies to help them understand new and emerging technologies and how these technologies can be applied to solve their business problems. George also is the author of the SQL Azure Migration Wizard (SQLAzureMW).
Wade Wegner
Wade Wegner is an architect in the Developer & Platform Evangelism division at Microsoft, tasked to collaborate with organizations in the advanced and emergent areas of enterprise architecture, SOA, Web 2.0, and cloud computing, as well as to support decision makers on defining technology adoption strategies. Drawing on his deep background in IT consulting, Wade enjoys helping customers create value from using objective and pragmatic approaches to define IT strategies and solution architectures.
Links:
- SQL Azure Migration Wizard http://sqlazuremw.codeplex.com/
- Significant Updates to the SQL Azure Migration Wizard http://blog.wadewegner.com/index.php/2009/12/15/significant-updates-to-the-sql-azure-migration-wizard/
- Chunking BCP output to upload lots of data into SQL Azure http://blog.wadewegner.com/index.php/2009/11/02/chunking-bcp-output-to-upload-lots-of-data-into-sql-azure/
- SQL Azure Migration Wizard stories http://blog.wadewegner.com/index.php/features/sql-azure-migration-wizard/stories/
- Wade's Blog http://blog.wadewegner.com/
- Wade on Twitter http://twitter.com/wadewegner