1. Moving Your SQL Database to SQL Azure And Setting up Data Sync
SQL Saturday #200
Moving Your SQL Database to SQL Azure
And Setting up Data Sync

2. Agenda Who Am I? What is Windows Azure SQL Database
Concepts
Architecture
Supported vs. Non Supported Features
Demo

3. PASS Summit PASS Summit (Charlotte, NC October 15-18)
$150 Discount Code: SUM099CH

4. Who is RDA? Great people Thought leaders
RDA Presentation to Mercer Advisors – OnTrack® Development & Maintenance
July 29, 2008
Who is RDA?
Great people
Thought leaders
Know how and what to communicate
Interpersonal skills
Technical experience
100 full time, highly experienced specialists
Invest > $1 million in training
1,100+ technical certifications
Average 14 years of industry experience
.NET Application Development
Business Intelligence
Enterprise Application Integration
Communication and Collaboration
Predictable outcomes to large, complex projects – A proven track record delivering large, complex projects on time and on budget; have successfully engaged in several multi-million dollar fixed price projects.
Proven technology experience – Employ seasoned consultants who combine multiple years of technical experience backed by technology certifications, good consulting skills, and a strong work ethic.
Our collaborative process – Proven software development methodology across hundreds of projects, both large and small; iterative releases and risk mitigation.
Managing expectations –Setting objectives and measuring progress on their achievement, and paying close attention to risk management.
Creative solutions that save time and money – Assisting our clients by scrutinizing business processes to identify opportunities for streamlining and identifying off-the-shelf software than can contribute to the solution; improve their return on investment for projects.

5. Everything as a Service
Infrastructure As a Service
Platform As a Service
Software As a Service
Uses VMs
Consumer manages, patches and monitors machines
Full Compatibility with SQL Server on-premise
Minimal changes to existing apps
Provides APIs
Building Block Services
Provider manages VMs and patches
Requires a migration of apps
Great opportunity for scalability
Web Front End to Software
Multi-Tenant
Logical Separation of data
Very little customisation
Commodity
End Users
Devs
ITPros

6. Windows Azure SQL Database The first and only true relational database as a service
Self-managed
Elastic Scale
Developer Agility
Easy provisioning and deployment
Auto high-availability and fault tolerance
Self-maintaining infrastructure; self-healing
No need for server or VM administration
Database utility; pay as you grow
Flexible load balancing
Business-ready SLAs
Enable multi-tenant solutions
World-wide presence
Build cloud-based database solutions on consistent relational model
Leverage existing skills through existing ecosystem of developer and management tools
Explore new data application patterns

7. Microsoft Data Centres
More than 10 and less than 100 DCs worldwide
Plus multiple global CDN locations
Dublin
Amsterdam
Quincy
Chicago
Japan
Hong Kong
Boydton
Des Moines
San Antonio
Singapore
Quincy, Washington: approx 500K sq ft, 27MW, uses entirely hydro-electric power
San Antonio, Texas: approx 477K sq ft, 27MW, uses recycled water for cooling
Chicago, Illinois: 707K square feet with critical power of 60 MW, uses water side economization, containers
Dublin, Ireland: approx 570K sq ft, up to 27MW, uses outside air for cooling.

8. Service Provisioning Model
Account
Each account has zero or more servers
Azure wide, provisioned via a common portal
Establishes a billing instrument
The servers are logical, not tied to physical machines
Each server has one or more databases
Logical concept equal to a master DB
Contains metadata about database & usage
Unit of authentication, geo-location, billing, reporting
Generated DNS-based name
Each database has standard SQL objects
Users, Tables, Views, Indices, etc
Unit of consistency
Server
Database
It is important to clarify that logical servers are not tied to physical machines, meaning the logical server is really just a unit of organization (you have a logical master database with data for the databases on the “logical server”).  

9. Database Replicas and Failover!
Single Database
Three Replicas
Replica 1
Single Primary
Replica 2 DB
Replica 3
This slide shows what happens when a primary fails. Clarify that there are a bunch of primary / secondaries on each machine (other databases on the cluster).
Replica 4

10. Database Editions Two SQL Database SKUs: Web & Business
You specify Web or Business Edition
Web: EDITION = Web
Business: EDITION = Business
You specify MAXSIZE
Web: MAXSIZE = 1GB| 5GB
Business: MAXSIZE = 10GB | 20GB | 30GB | 40GB | 50GB | 100GB | 150GB
This is the size we will not let you grow beyond
You will be charged for the actual (peak) size (in any one day)
Business Edition
Up to 150 GB
Web Edition
Up to 5 GB

11. Windows Azure SQL Database Security
Supports SQL Server Security
On-premise SQL Server security concepts still apply
Server-level: sds_dbcreator, sds_securityadmin roles
Database-level: same as on-premise SQL Server
Administrative user is equivalent to sa

12. T-SQL Support (full or partial)
Constants
Constraints
Cursors
Index management and
rebuilding indexes
Local temporary tables
Reserved keywords
Stored procedures
Statistics management
Transactions
Triggers
Tables, joins, and table variables
Transact-SQL language elements such as
Create/drop databases
Create/alter/drop tables
Create/alter/drop users and logins …
User-defined functions
Views

13. T-SQL Not Supported Common Language Runtime (CLR)
Database file placement
Database mirroring
Distributed queries
Distributed transactions
Filegroup management
Full Text Search
Global temporary tables
SQL Server configuration options
SQL Server Service Broker
System tables
Trace Flags

14. Moving Your Data SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
Data Tier Application
BCP (bulk copy) Support
Data Sync

15. SQL Data Sync Preview Mode on the Windows Azure Portal
Moves Data On Demand or Scheduled
Build Sync Groups – Define Hub and Client

16. SQL Data Sync Supported Data Types
Data Type Category
Supported SQL Database Data Type
Exact Numbers
Supported: bit, decimal, int, numeric, smallint, tinyint.
Approximate Numbers
Supported: float, real.
Date and Time
Supported: date, datetime2, datetime, datetimeoffset, time.
Character Strings
Supported: char, varchar, text.
Unicode Character Strings
Supported: nchar, nvarchar, ntext.
Binary Strings
Supported: binary*, varbinary*, image.  See Unsupported Data Types: binary(50) and varbinary(5) are not supported.
Spatial Data Types
Supported: geography, geometry.
Other Data Types
Supported: sql_variant, table, uniqueidentifier, xml.

17. SQL Data Sync Unsupported Data Types
Data Type Category
Unsupported Data Type
Exact Numbers
Not supported: money, smallmoney.
Binary Strings
Not supported: binary(50), varbinary(5).
Date and Time
Not supported: smalldatetime.
FileStream
Not supported.
CLR UDT
SQL UDT
XML Data Types
Not supported: XmlSchemaCollection.
Other Data Types
Not supported: cursor, timestamp, hierarchyid.

18. Demo

19. Questions? Email Chuck Rivel at Rivel@RDACorp.com
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