Happy 2012 to all of you! 2011 has been a great year. We now have federations live in production with SQL Azure. So lets chat about fanout querying. What is a fan-out query? Federations provide a model for partitioning parts of your schema over...

Dan posted a great comment to my previous blog post and I think the question he is raising is worth a blog post! Thanks for the question Dan! Here is Dan’s question: Dan - Tue, Dec 13 2011 11:57 AM Cihan, thanks for keeping us all posted all the way until...

Wooohooowwwy! Finally the day arrives! The year end update to SQL Azure is live and you can now use federations across all geographies of SQL Azure. There also a great new surprise we have been working on; we are making Federations available through...

Note: the article has been updated with the new pricing model that went into effect in Feb 2012. Now that Federations is live in production, lets talk about how the billing model works for federations. Good news is the model is very simple; With federations...