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Overview of Windows Azure
Windows Azure is the Platform-as-a-Service offering (PaaS) from Microsoft. Like other cloud services it provides the following features: Compute Storage Connectivity Management Compute Windows Azure...
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SQL Azure Federations
SQL Azure Federations is a forthcoming technology that supports elastic scalability of SQL Azure databases. It provides Transact SQL support for managing the automated federation of data across...
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SQL Azure Management REST API
The SQL Azure Management REST API was released with the May 2011 SQL Azure release. This API is very similar to the Windows Azure Service Management REST API that has been available for some time. They...
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Windows Azure Boot Camps
A Windows Azure Boot Camp is a great way to learn Windows Azure. The boot camp is a mixture of presentations and hands-on labs where you can try out Windows Azure. Boot camps are normally two days....
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Microsoft Windows Azure Development Cookbook
The reason I didn’t write many posts on the blog in the early part of this year was that I was writing a book on Windows Azure for Packt Publishing. This book, Microsoft Windows Azure Development...
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Handling Transient Connection Failures in SQL Azure
This post is one of the recipes in my book Microsoft Windows Azure Development Cookbook. The recipe describes how to use the Transient Fault Handling Framework to handle transient connection failures...
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Introduction to SQL Azure Federations
4/9/14 – UPDATE: Connor Cunningham, of the Azure SQL Database team, has provided in a comment a link to updated guidance on the use of Federations. The short version is that new projects should...
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Microsoft Silverlight 5 and Windows Azure Enterprise Integration
Late last year I was looking for information on Silverlight and Windows Azure and came across a RAW (preview) eBook named Microsoft Silverlight 4 and Windows Azure Enterprise Integration written by...
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