Microsoft.com Operations

We are the operations team that runs the Microsoft.com sites.

August, 2007

  • Using SQL 2005 Snapshots As A Rollback Procedure

    One of the great new features of SQL 2005 is database snapshots. With one simple transact SQL statement, you can provide your users with a read-only, static copy of their data. For example, you can take a snapshot on the last day of the month and users...
  • Release Management: Building the Bridge

    In the last post from the release management team, we talked about the strategic topic of developing the philosophy of RM being a bridge, and not a barrier, to the deployment and support of applications into the production environment. One of the items...