SQL Azure Database

SQL Azure Database

1. Benefits

   • Automatic and unlimited scalability
   • Unassisted deployment
   • Builtin failover
   • Grow as you need and pay what you use

2. Building blocks of cloud computing

   • SAAS : Software as a service
   • PAAS : Platform as a service
   • IAAS : Infrastructure as a service

3. Major components of Windows Azure Platform

   • Windows Azure
     • Platform that enables you to run your wen applications and services on a Microsoft virtualised operating system platform
   • Cloud Services
     • Service that provides capabilities such as federated identities for access control and message bus for messaging based subscriber and publisher topologies
   • SQL Database
     • Microsoft transactional database. 
   • Business scenarios
     • Seasonal applications
     • Short Life span applications
     • Split storage
     • Small companies and ISV

4. Windows Azure Geo-locations

   • Performance
     • Availability vs performance
   • Disaster Recovery
     • Single data center vs distributed data centres
   • Legal factors
   • Affinity Groups
     • Keeps all your services together and forms a dependancy on data center location

5. Windows Azure Storage

   • 4 storage models
     • Table
       • Name valued pair storage that enables you to store large amounts of data
     • Blobs
       • Interface to store files
     • Queue
       • Store messages
     • SQL Database
       • Stores relational data

6. Pricing

7. Design Considerations

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