CodePaLOUsa 2011 - SQL Azure

SQL Azure
Presenter: Aaron King
Session Number: 310

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What is SQL Azure?
“SQL Azure is a scalable and cost-effective on-demand data storage and query processing service. SQL Azure is a hosted application build on robust Microsoft SQL Server database and Windows Server technologies.”

What is SQL Azure really?
SQL Azure is your data hosted by Microsoft with a strong service level agreement (SLA). The SLA not only ensures high availability but also performance and protection.

Azure™ Services Platform:
http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/windows-azure-and-cloud-computing-posts_19.html

Robust SQL Server Support
SQL Azure is built on robust SQL Server database technologies.
SQL Server is a broad data platform that can handle all types of data, from creation to archival.

Ease of Development
SQL Azure facilitates development.
Just like local development in SQL Express.
Its flexible data model supports any programming language.

Scalability
The SQL Azure database fabric is flexible and scales according to business needs.
The service is supported by multiple servers.
Therefore, it has the ability to provide any required storage capacity.
Also, there is no time delay due to server provisioning.

Availability
Because SQL Azure is accessible via the Internet, it ensures the availability of data to users in any geographic location.
Further, SQL Azure uses enterprise-grade hardware and program code, which are optimized for high throughput.

Security
SQL Azure provides organizations with secure data access and confidentiality.
It is built on a relational database architecture that includes data protection.
Multiple copies of data that you create or modify can be stored across geographically distributed data centers.

Strong Service Level Agreement
SQL Azure provides you with a strong SLA that assures:
high availability
guaranteed performance
data protection
compliance
enterprise-level security features
real-time mirrored database replication

Benefits of SQL Azure
Robust SQL Server support
Ease of application development
Scalability
Availability
Security
Strong SLA

Features of SQL Azure
SQL Azure provides UNLIMITED data storage capacity.
SQL Azure uses a PAY-AS-YOU-GROW pricing strategy.
SQL Azure has $0 start up cost.
SQL Azure can be located close to your users, even if you’re not.

SQL Azure vs. SQL Server
SQL Azure
Anytime from Any place
Failure of one server will not impact performance
Unlimited amount of data
SQL Server
On-premise data platform
Single point of failure
Data is restricted by software and hardware

Things to watch out for
Need clustered index for each table
‘ANSI_NULLS’ is not a recognized SET option.
SET ANSI_PADDING OFF
More than two-part column name
Data types:
text
ntext
xml
image
Table hint without WITH
Filegroup reference and partitioning scheme’ is not supported in this version of SQL Server
fn_listextendedproperty is not supported

Pricing
Web Edition:
Up to 1 GB relational database = $9.99 / month
Business Edition:
Data transfers = $0.10 in / $0.15 out / GB - ($0.30 in / $0.45 out / GB in Asia)

Demos, Demos, Demos!
Demos, Demos, Demos!
How to query in SQL Azure
More Demos!

Recent News!
Production Level App Fabric
50 Gb SQL Azure!
hierarchyid
Data Sync
oData
Hudson
Database Copy, kinda cool, will get better.
SQL Reporting CTP

Thank you!
Questions or comments?
http://www.aaronstanleyking.com
aaron@woundvision.com@trendoid

CodePaLOUsa 2011 - SQL Azure

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