TechEd wound to a close last Friday. Our engineering leaders put together some great demos and presentations that help developers take advantage of cloud data with SQL Azure, as well as preview what’s coming next on the roadmap. The blogosphere has been very active with articles from people who...

Norm Judah, Chief Technology Officer for Microsoft Services, presented a Foundational Session at TechEd detailing examples of what is possible in the cloud this past week. The session covered four demos on 1) building a private cloud, 2) event based applications, 3) looking at SharePoint as an application...

Quentin Clark, Vice President for SQL Server, delivered a session after the TechEd keynote yesterday about the future of SQL Server for data and BI and moving towards the cloud in the upcoming “Denali” release. There was a great demo by Roger Doherty that illustrates how well SQL Azure...

Announced earlier today at TechEd , there are several key updates to the SQL Azure service that I wanted to share with you. Zane Adam covered these at a high level on his blog this morning as well as talking about improvements in AppFabric. The theme of this service release was to continue improving...

TechEd is this week! As I wrote in my post on Friday, TechEd is May 16-19 in Atlanta. Unfortunately I am not there, I was at InterOp earlier this week in Vegas (I’ll send a recap of that in the next few days) and I’ll be sitting this one out to catch up on some work and to start work on an...

TechEd is next week! May 16-19 to be exact, in Atlanta. Unfortunately I won’t be there - I was at InterOp earlier this week in Vegas (I’ll send a recap of that in the next few days) and I’ll be sitting this one out to catch up on some work and to start work on an idea for a cloud application...

If you plan on attending TechEd Europe 2010 in Berlin from November 8th-12 th there are several opportunities to learn more about SQL Azure and meet with members of the engineering team. The following SQL Azure sessions will be presented: COS211-IS - Introducing SQL Azure Reporting: New solutions and...

Nick Bowyer interviews David Robinson about SQL Azure at Tech.Ed New Zealand 2010.

David Robinson will be in New Zealand this month for TechEd New Zealand 2010 . If you are interested in SQL Azure make sure to attend his presentations. COS209 Migrating Applications to Microsoft SQL Azure Are you looking to migrate your on-premise applications and database from MySql or other RDBMs...

David Robinson will be in Australia and New Zealand this month for TechEd Austrialia 2010 and TechEd New Zealand 2010 . If you are interested in SQL Azure make sure to attend his presentations. Australia DAT209 Migrating Applications to Microsoft SQL Azure Are you looking to migrate your on-premise applications...

Microsoft Codename “Dallas” enables developers to consume premium commercial and public domain data to power consumer and business apps on any platform or device. You can provide relevant data to inform business decisions, create visualizations to discover patterns, and increase user engagement with...

Are you looking to migrate your on-premise applications and database from MySql or other RDBMs to SQL Azure? Or are you simply focused on the easiest ways to get your SQL Server database up to SQL Azure? Then, this video is for you. Cihan Biyikoglu covers two fundamental areas in this session: application...

SQL Azure provides a highly available and scalable relational database engine in the cloud. In this demo-intensive video learn how to quickly build Web applications with SQL Azure Databases and familiar Web technologies. Patric McElroy demonstrate several new enhancements added to SQL Azure based on...

This video from Microsoft TechEd North America 2010 covers best practices for using the SQL Azure cloud relational database. Rick Negrin walks through the creation of a departmental application from scratch. We see firsthand how easy it is to provision a SQL Azure Database and start developing against...

Interested in learning firsthand about SQL Azure? Come meet our team at Microsoft TechEd North America . We will be presenting at six sessions and hosting an open lab so that you can experiment with SQL Azure. DAT209: What’s New in Microsoft SQL Azure SQL Azure provides a highly available and scalable...

Hi Folks, Here is another video from TechEd. In this one, Rick Negrin and I talk about scaling out your database with SQL Data Services and the performance gains you will see. The video can be seen here . Enjoy!!! Dave

Hi Folks, Here is another Tech-Ed Online video . In this one, Rick and Zhongwei talk about the responsibilities of a DBA with SDS. I hope you enjoy, Dave

The SDS team was extremely busy last week at TechEd North America in L.A.. We presented 3 sessions, recorded 4 TechEd online videos and spent a great deal of time speaking with customers. Here is a video we did on what the provisioning experience will be like for SDS in the Azure Developer Portal...