{"id":3310,"date":"2011-05-20T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.simple-talk.com\/uncategorized\/tools-for-cloud-construction\/"},"modified":"2016-07-28T10:50:25","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T10:50:25","slug":"tools-for-cloud-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/other\/tools-for-cloud-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"Tools for Cloud Construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reviewing the tools coming from Microsoft that help you deploy and manage your SQL Azure database over on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scarydba.com\/category\/azure-2\/\">Scary DBA<\/a>. Over here, quite frankly, I&#8217;ve been pointing out that we have a selection of tools that are already working better than those coming from the MS tool set. But I hadn&#8217;t seen them all in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/products\/cloud\/\">one place like this<\/a>. Well done guys. <\/p>\n<p>Look, Microsoft is going to the Cloud. They&#8217;re &#8220;all in.&#8221; To me, this means that I need to, at least, be aware of what they&#8217;re doing. But probably, it means I need to get in there, understand how data in the Cloud works and what I can do with it. I suspect most of you are in the same spot. How great then that many tools you probably already own work extremely well with the Cloud. today. We&#8217;re just going to get better.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the key, data is data. It doesn&#8217;t matter if it&#8217;s stored in the Cloud or not. The processes that are going to compel you to use a tool like SQL&#160; Compare or SQL Data Compare are still in place in the Cloud. It&#8217;s that simple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reviewing the tools coming from Microsoft that help you deploy and manage your SQL Azure database over on Scary DBA. Over here, quite frankly, I&#8217;ve been pointing out that we have a selection of tools that are already working better than those coming from the MS tool set. But I hadn&#8217;t seen them&#8230;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3310"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42037,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310\/revisions\/42037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3310"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}