Many customers are moving existing workloads into SQL Azure or are developing on premise but move production environments to the SQL Azure. For most folks, that means transferring schema and data from SQL Server to SQL Azure. When transferring schema...

With the recent release of SQL Azure, we are now available in 6 data centers around the world. This enables everyone to be able to create databases around the world, closer to where the usage will be. Beyond having your data closer to your location, the...

Thanks to all of you that made it to New Orleans. For those of you who could not, here is the video of the talk: Enjoy! -Cihangir Biyikoglu

SQL Azure updated the pricing model in Feb 2012. With the recent update, this article no longer applies. Please refer to my new post for updated information; http://blogs.msdn.com/b/cbiyikoglu/archive/2012/02/16/the-new-pricing-model-for-sql-azure-explained...