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In Service update in Dec 2011, SQL Azure Management portal UI look and feel has been changed and Metro styled UI has been used.This makes management of databases easier....
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SQL Azure now started to support collations also. While creating database, user can specify the collation. Once database is created, its not possible to change the collation, as ALTER DATABASE has no collation support.
Collation can be set specifically...
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In Its service pack update in Dec 2011, SQL Azure increased business edition maximum size to 150GB. But there is no additional cost for this.
Price of 50 GB DB = 499.99 per month Price of 150 GB is the same. i.e. 499.99 per month and hence we save 67%...
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One traditional approach to improve performance is scale-up by increasing hard-ware etc. Scale-up approach has certain limit. New trend towards improving performance is scale-out. SQL Azure supports scale-out by using federations. This will solve the pr...
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In SQL Azure Service update in Dec 2011, Business edition database size has been increased from 50GB to 150GB. Once the database size is beyond 50GB, We can increments in chunks of 50GB size as 50,100,150GB.
We can change the database size using ALTER ...
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From OCT 2011, In SQL Azure Data sync CTP, Availability has been increased. New management portal provides a rich GUI to sync 2 databases and shows the progress....
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In SQL Azure reporting CTP Oct 2011, Availability and performance has been improved....
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In Service Update in July 2011, Support for spatial data types has been increased....
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In Service Update in July 2011, Support for spatial data types has been increased....
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In SQL Azure Service Pack Update in July 2011, SQL Azure Management portal has been introduced to manage the databases in server and data tier applications. With SQL Azure Management portal, we can create the databases in SQL Azure server, create schema...
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