Reviews
A while back I started my path with Windows Azure and in general the surrounding technologies and changes that have happened since the start of it. Finding resources now has become rather easy, from the blog posts to the amazing resources available through the Training Kits and such. But the books have also been key. And that where the Windows Azure Step by Step by Roberto Brunetti and published by Microsoft Press, has been a great book. It gives a well rounded intro into Cloud Services in general....
I have used Source Control since the first release, and even then it was a great option for bringing source control for the DB. Well a great tool just got better and better rounded in the process. Again, the integration with multiple repositories like SVN or in my case TFS is great. What makes it even better is the near zero interaction a DBA would have to have with Visual Studio in order to drive the solution from managing a few stored procedures or tables to driving a database change management...