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Powering Data On the Web and the Cloud with SQL Azure

This video provides demos and guidance on lighting up web experiences using SQL Azure, Microsoft’s suite of cloud database services. Using Visual Studio we’ll go through the steps to quickly architect cloud data-driven web user experiences in ASP.NET MVC3 that also scale for high volumes of users and data. Next, we’ll demonstrate how SQL Azure …

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Moving SQL Azure Servers

A new feature has been added to the Windows Azure Management Portal to enable moving SQL Azure servers between different subscriptions. This blog post proposes a detailed process on how to use the move server feature of Windows Azure. It remind us that moving a SQL Azure server does not involve a physical move of …

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Overview of SQL Azure Data Sync

This video provides an overview of the SQL Azure Data Sync service capabilities and target scenarios. After some slides to introduce the service, the video provides a demo of the SQL Azure Data Sync service.

Updates to SQL Azure Database

In this episode, Roger Doherty, Technical Evangelist for SQL Server and SQL Azure, discusses recent updates to the SQL Azure database.

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Partition Data in SQL Azure

This sample demonstrates how to partition your data in SQL Azure. It shows two ways: one is vertical partitioning while the other is horizontal partitioning. In this version of vertically partitioning for SQL Azure we are dividing all the tables in the schema across two or more SQL Azure databases. In this version of horizontal …

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SQL Azure Reporting

The SQL Azure Reporting CTP gives developers a familiar paradigm for developing and distributing reports – except that no one has to worry about the infrastructure to host it. This article demonstrates with a simple example that uses data from performance counters captured as part of the diagnostics for a Web Role.