Setting up local Storage Emulator database instance for SQL Azure

Once you install Windows Azure SDK on your local environment , you need to do certain changes to your local envirnoment before you use local SQL Azure storage account, SQL Azure storage emulator points to its default instance and if this SQL server instance in not available on you local environment you need to change default instance to your available SQL instance.

Refer following screen shot to change default local SQL Azure storage database.

Once above mentioned command line is executed, new instace will have new database with name "DevelopmentStorageDb201206".

First Look at Windows 8

Windows 8 is the next version of Windows 7, the main difference between other Microsoft Operating System with Windows 8 is, it supports multiple platforms such as x86,x64 and ARM.


Windows 8 can be installed on desktop,laptops,tablet pcs.


The look and feel is very attractive and once Windows 8 is released, this is going to change complete computing experience.


Windows 8 Release Preview can be downloaded from Microsoft site (http://windows.microsoft.com/en-IN/windows-8/release-preview)


Instead of directly installing on your laptop, you can first install this on Virtual Machine (VMWare, Oracle VirtualBox etc)


I have installed my first Windows 8 Operating System (Build 8400) on my Oracle VirtualBox without any difficulties.


Windows 8 Main View

User will have different exprience with Windows 8 OS. User need to spend some time to learn this new operating system which has Metro Style Windows 8 Style UI View.


There are lots of new feature which are very new to the Windows 8 OS, such as search.
Some of the New Features of Windows 8 

• Metro Style  Windows 8 Style UI Application Support
• New task bar view
• Support for Sign in using Windows Live account
• Sync with multile system with same Windows Live account
• Integration with SkyDrive 

New Task Manager

 There are so many other great features which I will be keep on posting :)

(Note: As per latest update, Microsoft has dropped "Metro" name,and instead it will be called "Windows 8 Style UI")