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Setting up SSL on a Microsoft Azure application

Written by: Lee Kohn

Recently I as involved with adding SSL to a site which is hosted within Microsft’s Aure platform.  Overall the process went pretty smoothly having used the guide from MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/ff795779.aspx   The one thing it forgets to mention is that along with server certificate you also need all of the certificates along the chain of trust back

Updating large quantities of data in SQL Azure

Written by: Lee Kohn

Recently I ran into a scenario where I had a production database which contained a table with 1.4 million records in which I wanted to convert a varchar column containing numbers to a bigint column. I used a backup of the database to try out a few different methods; at first I tried simply running