Thank you Jeff for your wonderful post.

It has been extremely helpful to achieve faster speed in a test case I was creating on sql azure.

I referenced your post in the Microsoft forum where I had already started a thread before finding your precious info:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ssdsgetstarted/thread/c368315a-1bf1-4353-b0af-c4cfbb44b2c1

Cheers,

Mario