This talk will focus on the benefits, features, and ease of use of SQL Azure. Learn how your projects can benefit from a hosted data storage and query processing service. See by example how to design your program to use SQL Azure. Real world topics and use cases will be covered including data sync and staying vendor independent while hosting your data in the cloud.

1. SQL Azure Presenter: Aaron King Session Number: 310

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4. 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.”

5. 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.

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

7. 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.

9. Just like local development in SQL Express.

11. The service is supported by multiple servers.

12. Therefore, it has the ability to provide any required storage capacity.

15. It is built on a relational database architecture that includes data protection.

17. guaranteed performance

18. data protection

19. compliance

20. enterprise-level security features

22. Ease of application development

23. Scalability

24. Availability

25. Security

27. SQL Azure uses a PAY-AS-YOU-GROW pricing strategy.

28. SQL Azure has $0 start up cost.

30. Failure of one server will not impact performance

32. Single point of failure

34. ‘ANSI_NULLS’ is not a recognized SET option.

35. SET ANSI_PADDING OFF

36. More than two-part column name

37. Data types:

38. text

39. ntext

40. xml

41. image

42. Table hint without WITH

43. Filegroup reference and partitioning scheme’ is not supported in this version of SQL Server

45. Up to 1 GB relational database = $9.99 / month

46. Up to 5 GB relational database = $49.95 / month

47. Business Edition:

48. Up to 10 GB relational database = $99.99 / month

49. Up to 20 GB relational database = $199.98 / month

50. Up to 30 GB relational database = $299.97 / month

51. Up to 40 GB relational database = $399.96 / month

52. Up to 50 GB relational database = $499.95 / monthData transfers = $0.10 in / $0.15 out / GB - ($0.30 in / $0.45 out / GB in Asia)

54. How to query in SQL Azure

56. 50 Gb SQL Azure!

57. hierarchyid

58. Data Sync

59. oData

60. Hudson

61. Database Copy, kinda cool, will get better.