Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of Azure SQL Database External REST Endpoint Integration – an ability to call a REST endpoint natively from Azure SQL Database.

Microsoft has announced a private preview of Copilot for SQL Azure, which offers a natural language for SQL conversion and self-help for database administration.

Using SQL Azure Portal Using SQL Azure API SQL Azure Architecture SQL Azure resides in the Microsoft Data center, which provides a relational database to applications with four layer of abstraction.

Get ready to scale out SQL Azure databases beyond today's 50GB limit with the Transact-SQL and ADO.NET elastic sharding features, which are coming in the 2011 SQL Azure Federation Community Technology ...

Focusing back on SQL Azure and Windows Azure Table Storage, I'm going to describe some ideal usage patterns and give some code examples using each. SQL Azure Basics SQL Azure provides the base ...

Microsoft SQL Azure is a highly available and scalable cloud database service built on SQL Server technologies and is a key component of Microsoft's cloud strategy. Using data replication to load data ...

SQL Azure is Microsoft's cloud-based relational database service hosted in their data centers, and it's got some DBAs worrying about the future. The more I look at the technology, however, the more I ...