Federations: What’s Next? Announcements from TechED 2012http://blogs.msdn.com/b/cbiyikoglu/archive/2012/06/14/federations-what-s-next-announcements-from-teched-2012.aspxFederations have been available for 6 months in SQL Azure (now called Windows Azure SQL Database) as of today! In this post, I&rsquo;ll first cover few of the improvements we have made to the SQL Database Federations and talk about a few of the announcementen-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)re: Federations: What’s Next? Announcements from TechED 2012http://blogs.msdn.com/b/cbiyikoglu/archive/2012/06/14/federations-what-s-next-announcements-from-teched-2012.aspx#10327718Sat, 07 Jul 2012 14:29:53 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10327718Roel Vlemmings<p>Are there any plans to add the FEDERATION functionality to SQL Server 2012? I would allow us to use the exact same database schema for both in-house and cloud databases. In-house would be a multi-tenant database with a single tenant (or a few tenants for independent teams) and cloud would obviously have lots of tenants. I read that SQL Server 2012 and SQL Azure are basically built on the same code base, so this should not be terribly difficult.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10327718" width="1" height="1">re: Federations: What’s Next? Announcements from TechED 2012http://blogs.msdn.com/b/cbiyikoglu/archive/2012/06/14/federations-what-s-next-announcements-from-teched-2012.aspx#10326369Tue, 03 Jul 2012 05:29:05 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10326369Adam<p>Things look great. &nbsp;The biggest clincher for us is indexed views. &nbsp;If we could create indexed views that could sit in each federation member, or, ideally across all, we would be able to successfully use SQL Azure for data warehousing.</p> <p>We need ROLAP-style indexed view aggregations on the data to improve query performance. &nbsp;Is this coming or has it fallen off the radar?</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10326369" width="1" height="1">re: Federations: What’s Next? Announcements from TechED 2012http://blogs.msdn.com/b/cbiyikoglu/archive/2012/06/14/federations-what-s-next-announcements-from-teched-2012.aspx#10323427Mon, 25 Jun 2012 06:51:35 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10323427Martin<p>Any idea as to when Federations will get MARS support? (needed to use Lazy Loading with Entity Framerwork)</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10323427" width="1" height="1">