SQL Azure Database

1 Benefits

1.1 Automatic and unlimited scalability

1.2 Unassisted deployment

1.3 Builtin failover

1.4 Grow as you need and pay what you use

2 Building blocks of cloud computing

2.1 SAAS : Software as a service

2.2 PAAS : Platform as a service

2.3 IAAS : Infrastructure as a service

3 Major components of Windows Azure Platform

3.1 Windows Azure

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Platform that enables you to run your wen applications and services on a Microsoft virtualised operating system platform

3.2 Cloud Services

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Service that provides capabilities such as federated identities for access control and message bus for messaging based subscriber and publisher topologies

3.3 SQL Database

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Microsoft transactional database.

3.4 Business scenarios

3.4.1 Seasonal applications

3.4.2 Short Life span applications

3.4.3 Split storage

3.4.4 Small companies and ISV

4 Windows Azure Geo-locations

4.1 Performance

4.1.1 Availability vs performance

4.2 Disaster Recovery

4.2.1 Single data center vs distributed data centres

4.3 Legal factors

4.4 Affinity Groups

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Keeps all your services together and forms a dependancy on data center location

5 Windows Azure Storage

5.1 4 storage models

5.1.1 Table

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Name valued pair storage that enables you to store large amounts of data

5.1.2 Blobs

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Interface to store files

5.1.3 Queue

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Store messages

5.1.4 SQL Database

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Stores relational data

6 Pricing

7 Design Considerations

SQL Azure Database

SQL Azure Database Mind Map on SQL Azure Database, created by wynand.coetzee77 on 04/03/2014.

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