SQL Azure (formerly SQL Server Data Services and later SQL Services) is a cloud-based service from Microsoft offering data-storage capabilities (similar to those of Amazon S3 and Amazon Relational Database Service) as a part of the Azure Services Platform. Unlike similar cloud-based databases, SQL Azure allows users to make relational queries against stored data, which can either be structured or semi-structured, or even unstructured documents.[1] SQL Azure features querying data, search, data analysis and data synchronization.[1]
SQL Azure uses a special version of Microsoft SQL Server as its backend. It provides high availability by storing multiple copies of databases, elastic scale and rapid provisioning. It exposes a subset of the full SQL Server functionality, including only a subset of the data types — including string, numeric, date and boolean.[2] It uses an XML-based format for data transfer.[1] Like Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Azure uses T-SQL as the query language and Tabular Data Stream (TDS) as the protocol to access the service over internet.[1][3] (The product does not provide a REST-based API to access the service over HTTP[1] - Microsoft recommends using ADO.NET Data Services for this purpose.[1])
Database Master - Database Management Tool for SQL Azure
[edit] References
Krishnaswamy, Jayaram (2010). Microsoft SQL Azure Enterprise Application Development. Packt Publishing. pp. 420. ISBN 978-1849680806. http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Azure-Enterprise-Application-Development/dp/1849680809/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_2.
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