Friday, July 4, 2014

Azure Cloud SQL Accounts

Hello All, After extensive consultation with the Microsoft Team, it will take some time before NIMR gets cloud storage accounts due to the procedure involved. I would suggest we register one account and have multiple administrators from all the centres. Registration requires a credit/master card card. However you are given one month free trial, after which you only pay for what you consume. The windows azure cloud comes with various services, since NIMR will be mostly utilizing the SQL database service, the maximum it could per month is 150 USD. I would request Jonas and other Center's managers to have a discussion on this Thanks

Thursday, May 8, 2014

NIMR-RTI Database Workshop

The RTI -NIMR Database Development Workshop held on 14 to 17, April 2014 was a success.  To all those who attended, we hope that you found some portions if not all of the interactive, practical overviews in the following areas useful:


.Refresher on Principles of Database Development 
.Review of SQL Server Programming
.Review of database hosting in the cloud
.Review of web application development utilizing
.Linking ASP MVC and SQL Server Online

We will be sharing relevant resources, some which were discussed during the workshop, on the Database Workshop page on this blog.  

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

The beginnings of a NIMR Unified Data Management Strategy (UDMS)

Hello everyone,

So our last blog post attempted to initiate some brainstorming around one of NIMR’s major action items to “establish a unified DM strategy as a long term goal”.  We asked you what some of the primary components of a DM strategy would be, based on lessons learned from the 2013 KSS.   Since then we have been working to develop the outline of a UDMS with support from some experts.

We are sharing the outline here to get some thoughts and feedback from you.



Also if you have interest in helping draft this UDMS, please let us know.

Thanks!