In the previous post , I described the rationale for scale-out vs scale-up. Explained why scale-out was the best thing after sliced bread and also why specifically sharding or horizontal partitioned wins as the best pattern in the world of scale-out....

As I spend time at conferences and customer event, the top faq I get has to be this one; SQL Azure is great but a single database is limited in size and computational capacity. How do I build applications that need larger computational capacity? My answer...