Review: Picasa Web Albums

This is the fourth post in my series on cloud backup solutions.  Previous posts were:

Disaster Recovery Strategies for the Home
A review of MozyHome Remote Backup
A review of Jungle Disk

Today’s topic is Google’s Picasa Web Albums, henceforth known as PWA.  Unlike the other solutions I’ve covered, PWA is not explicitly intended to be a backup solution. [...]

Six Tips For Avoiding Bad Table and Column Names

Do you like it when your schemata are easy to understand and maintain?  If so, keep the following in mind when choosing names for tables and columns.  If you’re feeling evil and want to inflict some frustration on others, this might give you some good ideas too…

1.  Data types make horrible names

There’s no rule that [...]

Review: Jungle Disk

This is the third post in my series on cloud backup solutions.  Previous posts were:

Disaster Recovery Strategies for the Home
A review of MozyHome Remote Backup

Today I’ll be talking about another cloud backup application called Jungle Disk.  I’ve been experimenting with it for a few months and am generally very happy with it.  Much like Mozy, [...]

Switching Between Recovery Models

I’ve seen many articles and blog posts concerning what to do when you have to switch between SQL Server Recovery Models.  A lot of these tips are very important, as they can mean the difference between being able to recover your data and the much less desirable opposite.

After a lot of web searches on the [...]

Hosting Your Images With Amazon S3

Images make just about everything more interesting, which is why I do my best to include at least one with each blog post even if for nothing more than comic relief.

I run a few different websites, and a while ago I decided to host the images for all of them in the cloud using Amazon [...]