InstantForum.NET v2.9.0SQLServerCentralhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/notifications@sqlservercentral.comWed, 19 Jun 2013 03:06:45 GMT20http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic839714-2572-1.aspxInteresting article, so from a DBA vantage point, how are our roles likely to change? Regarding administration of an application, how database creation, modification handled?Is there a central point of contact to get things done in Azure or is that something specifically for each company's policies.Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:00:16 GMTRyan D.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic839714-2572-1.aspx[img]http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/4154/sqlazurelogo.jpg[/img]Microsoft SQL Azure Database is a cloud-based relational database service built on SQL Server technologies. It provides a highly available, scalable, multi-tenant database service hosted by Microsoft in the cloud. High availability and fault tolerance is built-in and no physical administration is required. SQL Azure Database supports T-SQL.[i]SQL Azure Database Features[/i]:Relational Database Management Services (RDBMS) -Creating, accessing and manipulating tables, views, indexes, roles, stored procedures, triggers, and functions. -Execute complex queries and joins across multiple tables. -Insert, Update, and Delete. -Constraints. -Transactions. -Temp tables. -Basic functions (aggregates, math, string, date/time). -A subset of the existing SQL Server built-in stored procedures and system views. -Support for tracking billable metrics in real time and for historical analysis.[i]Benefits[/i] -No need to install or patch software or other physical administration. -Automatic high availability and fault tolerance. -Simple provisioning and deployment of multiple databases. -Scale databases up or down based on business needs. -Multi-tenant. -Integration with SQL Server and tooling including Visual Studio. -Support for T-SQL based familiar relational database model.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------There is the article from Jacob Sebastian [url=http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/SQL+Azure/68333/]Getting started with SQL Azure[/url].Also you can search the SSC forum for all SQL Azure posts, articles etc!Have a nice SQLAzuring...Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:29:47 GMTDugi