1. Presented by: Aaron Stanley King

2.  Benefits of SQL Azure  Features of SQL Azure  Demos, Demos, Demos!  How to query in SQL Azure  More Demos!  Recent News  SQL Azure Future  Questions and Answers Our Goals for Today

3. “SQL Azure is a scalable and cost-effective on-demand data storage and query processing service. SQL Azure is a hosted application build on robust Microsoft SQL Server database and Windows Server technologies.” What is SQL Azure?

4. SQL Azure is your data hosted by Microsoft with a strong service level agreement (SLA). The SLA not only ensures high availability but also performance and protection. What is SQL Azure really?

5. Azure™ Services Platform: http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/windows-azure-and-cloud-computing-posts_19.html

6. Benefits of SQL Azure

7. Robust SQL Server Support  SQL Azure is built on robust SQL Server database technologies.  SQL Server is a broad data platform that can handle all types of data, from creation to archival.

8.  SQL Azure facilitates development.  Just like local development in SQL Express.  Its flexible data model supports any programming language. Ease of Application Development

9.  The SQL Azure database fabric is flexible and scales according to business needs.  The service is supported by multiple servers.  Therefore, it has the ability to provide any required storage capacity.  Also, there is no time delay due to server provisioning. Scalability

10.  Because SQL Azure is accessible via the Internet, it ensures the availability of data to users in any geographic location.  Further, SQL Azure uses enterprise-grade hardware and program code, which are optimized for high throughput. Availability

11.  SQL Azure provides organizations with secure data access and confidentiality.  It is built on a relational database architecture that includes data protection.  Multiple copies of data that you create or modify can be stored across geographically distributed data centers. Security

12. SQL Azure provides you with a strong SLA that assures:  high availability  guaranteed performance  data protection  compliance  enterprise-level security features  real-time mirrored database replication Strong Service Level Agreement

13.  Robust SQL Server support  Ease of application development  Scalability  Availability  Security  Strong SLA Benefits of SQL Azure

14.  Benefits of SQL Azure  Features of SQL Azure  Demos, Demos, Demos!  How to query in SQL Azure  More Demos!  Recent News  SQL Azure Future  Questions and Answers Our Goals for Today

15.  SQL Azure provides UNLIMITED data storage capacity.  SQL Azure uses a PAY-AS-YOU-GROW pricing strategy.  SQL Azure has $0 start up cost.  SQL Azure can be located close to your users, even if you’re not. Features of SQL Azure

16. SQL Azure  Anytime from Any place  Failure of one server will not impact performance  Unlimited amount of data SQL Server  On-premise data platform  Single point of failure  Data is restricted by software and hardware SQL Azure vs. SQL Server

17.  Benefits of SQL Azure  Features of SQL Azure  Demos, Demos, Demos!  How to query in SQL Azure  More Demos!  Recent News  SQL Azure Future  Questions and Answers Our Goals for Today

18.  Demos, Demos, Demos!  How to query in SQL Azure  More Demos! Demos, Demos, Demos!

19.  Need clustered index for each table  ‘ANSI_NULLS’ is not a recognized SET option.  SET ANSI_PADDING OFF  More than two-part column name  Data types:  text  ntext  xml  image  Table hint without WITH  Filegroup reference and partitioning scheme’ is not supported in this version of SQL Server  fn_listextendedproperty is not supported Things to watch out for

20.  Benefits of SQL Azure  Features of SQL Azure  Demos, Demos, Demos!  How to query in SQL Azure  More Demos!  Recent News  SQL Azure Future  Questions and Answers Our Goals for Today

21.  Production Level App Fabric  50 Gb SQL Azure!  hierarchyid  Data Sync  oData  Hudson  Database Copy, kinda cool, will get better. Recent News!

22.  Web Edition:  Up to 1 GB relational database = $9.99 / month  Up to 5 GB relational database = $49.95 / month  Business Edition:  Up to 10 GB relational database = $99.99 / month  Up to 20 GB relational database = $199.98 / month  Up to 30 GB relational database = $299.97 / month  Up to 40 GB relational database = $399.96 / month  Up to 50 GB relational database = $499.95 / month Data transfers = $0.10 in / $0.15 out / GB - ($0.30 in / $0.45 out / GB in Asia) Pricing

23. SQL Azure Future? Reference Data Reporting ETL Data Mining

24. Thank you! Questions or comments? http://www.aaronstanleyking.com aaron@woundvision.com @trendoid