In my last article “Introduction to Windows Azure SQL Database Services (Part 1)“, I’ve provided an overview of Microsoft Windows Azure SQL database, which is a cloud-based relational database platform that is built on SQL Server technologies. We also learned about the steps on how to provision and deploy relational database solutions to the cloud using Window Azure platform. This gives us all advantages of distributed data center such as enterprise-class availability, scalability and security as well as benefits of integrated data-protection and self-healing.

Check out the second part of this article here, in which I discussed the administration and working of Windows Azure SQL Database platform

This article is published on SSWUG.org.