Getting Started with SQL Azure Development
SQL Azure provides features similar to a relational database for your cloud apps. We’ll show you how to start developing for SQL Azure today.
2011-01-14
3,003 reads
Azure
Migrating Your SQL Server Database Applications to SQL Azure
Most business applications you write probably utilize some kind of relational database. And, as a .NET developer, the chances are that database is Microsoft SQL Server. This article walks you through migrating your SQL Server database applications to the cloud with SQL Azure.
2010-09-27
3,374 reads
Synchronizing SQL Server and SQL Azure
SQL Azure Data Sync provides data synchronization between the cloud and local SQL Server databases. Learn how SQL Azure Data Sync allows you to keep the most concurrent information in the cloud while allowing mobile users, businesses, and enterprise data sources all to have access to this data.
2010-09-14
1,240 reads
Connecting Your Zend Framework Application to Microsoft Azure
After years of using PHP content management systems and a variety of custom-built PHP content management solutions, PHP Guru Jason Gilmore concluded that no solution effectively offered both the fundamental features of a content management system (CMS) and the flexibility of a web framework.
2010-04-20
1,865 reads
Azure Tutorial - Building a'Hello Word' app in Visual Studio
This article demonstrates how to build a simple Azure app using Visual Studio
2010-02-12
3,679 reads
Introduction to SQL Azure
Learn how to get started working with SQL Azure and migrating SQL Server databases to SQL Azure.
2009-12-24
3,433 reads
SQL Azure with ASP Dot Net
Don Schlichting demonstrates the development of a SQL Azure ASP Dot Net application, leveraging our existing TSQL and Dot Net skills.
2009-12-11
6,129 reads
SQL Server Management Studio and SQL Azure
A new article from Steve Moore shows us how to use SQL Server Management Studio with your SQL Azure databases in the cloud.
2009-12-09
6,315 reads
Building Windows Azure Cloud Service Applications with Azure Storage and the Azure SDK
Windows Azure and Azure Storage offers a new scalable and robust architecture that borrows much from the common feel of ASP.NET applications but brings plenty of new features as well. This paradigm shift from what has become traditional client-server architecture will offer new options to developers and headaches alike. While "the cloud" is not intended to be the answer for all applications and situations, it can only be a potential answer (another "tool" in the proverbial "tool belt") if you have at minimum a general understanding.
2009-11-23
1,893 reads
SQL Azure TSQL
SQL Azure is very similar to traditional SQL Server and now supports many standard TSQL commands. This article demonstrates the use of TSQL commands to create SQL Azure objects.
2009-11-12
3,874 reads
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