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SQL Azure - August 28th, 2009Aaron Stanley King

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Our Goals for Today

“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?

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?

Benefits of SQL Azure

Robust SQL Server support

“SQL Azure is built on robust SQL Server database technologies.Therefore, it benefits from the advantages of SQL Server,which is a broad data platform that can handle all types ofdata, from creation to archival.”

Ease of application development

“SQL Azure facilitates application development. Its just like localdevelopment in SQL Express. Its flexible data model supportsany programming language.”

Scalability

“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. The data is partitionedto meet these requirements.”

Availability

“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.”

Security

“SQL Azure provides organizations with secure data access and confidentiality. It is built on a relational database architecture that includes data protection. With SQL Azure, multiple copies of data that you create or modify are stored across geographically distributed data centers. This ensures thesafety of your data in the event of anydisaster.”

Strong SLA

“SQL Azure provides you with a strong SLA that assures high availability, guaranteed performance, data protection, compliance, enterprise-level security features, and real-time mirrored database replication.”

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Benefits of SQL Azure

•Robust SQL Server support•Ease of application development•Scalability•Availability•Security•Strong SLA

SQL Azure provides UNLIMITED data storage capacity.

SQL Azure uses a PAY-AS-YOU-GROW pricing strategy.

Features of SQL Azure

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 the

software and hardware

SQL Azure vs. SQL Server

Recent News?

SQL Azure Future?

Database

Reference Data

Reporting

ETLData Mining

Data Sync

Technology Independent

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Is there a market for SQL Azure?

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