Category Archives: SQL Server

WinFS, Integrated/Unified Storage, and Microsoft – Part 4

Posted on March 10, 2013 by

I knew that the Cairo Object File Store (OFS) was in trouble my first week at Microsoft.  I’d been asked to attend a design meeting for OLE DB that would start at 6PM.  On Friday.  Why such a seemingly important … Continue reading →

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WinFS, Integrated/Unified Storage, and Microsoft – Part 3

Posted on February 25, 2013 by

Although there are several ways to interpret the phrase “integrated storage” (or “unified storage”) one of the most important ones to focus on is that it creates a single store for Unstructured, Semi-Structured, and Structured types of storage.  The differences … Continue reading →

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WinFS, Integrated/Unified Storage, and Microsoft – Part 2

Posted on February 14, 2013 by

Hopefully Part 1 gave you some idea of the scenarios that Integrated Storage was intended to address and why you would want support in the storage system to help address them.  And yes, I barely scratched the surface of what one … Continue reading →

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WinFS, Integrated/Unified Storage, and Microsoft – Part 1

Posted on February 14, 2013 by

People have been bugging me to write about Integrated Storage for some time, and with Bill Gates having just disclosed that failure to ship WinFS was his biggest product regret  now seemed like a good time.  In Part 1 I’ll … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Trustworthy Computing (TwC)

Posted on January 15, 2012 by

Today marks the 10th Anniversary of Bill Gates’ Trustworthy Computing email to all of Microsoft.  Most consider this a transitional event for Microsoft, in particular being the point at which Security assumed its proper position as the most important of … Continue reading →

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OLE DB and SQL Server: History, End-Game, and some Microsoft “dirt”

Posted on September 25, 2011 by

Last month the Microsoft SQL Server team effectively sounded the death knell for Microsoft’s OLE DB.  I say “effectively” because while SQL Server isn’t the only implementor of OLE DB, it is (or rather was) Microsoft’s flagship for this data … Continue reading →

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Porting Microsoft SQL Server to Linux

Posted on July 27, 2011 by

I’ve been asked many times over the years about a port of Microsoft SQL Server to *nix (as we used to call it, since Unix was the primary offering in the Enterprise while Linux was just gaining traction).  Most recently … Continue reading →

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Why are there so many website security breaches?

Posted on July 26, 2011 by

Over the weekend my wife and I decided to go pay our last respects to Borders Books.  I could write a blog entry on why they failed (which includes missing the Internet, then missing e-Readers), or why we bought nothing … Continue reading →

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The rebirth of True Mountain Group

Posted on January 16, 2011 by

After I retired from Microsoft in 2002 I started doing some part-time consulting for fun, to keep my hand in the IT world, and of course for a little extra spending money.  I put that business, True Mountain Group LLC, on hold … Continue reading →

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