I wanted to bring to your attention a great whitepaper on “NoSQL and the Windows Azure platform” written by Andrew Brust , a frequently quoted technology commentator and consultant. This paper is important because there is a renewed interest in certain non-relational data stores which...

Earlier this week we published a whitepaper entitled Sharding with SQL Azure to the TechNet wiki. In the paper, Michael Heydt and Michael Thomassy discuss the best practices and patterns to select when using horizontal partitioning and sharding with your applications. Specific guidance shared in the...

There is a newly released white paper in the TechNet Wiki entitled: "SQL Azure: Connection Management in SQL Azure". SQL Azure provides a large-scale multi-tenant database service on shared resources. In order to provide a good experience to all SQL Azure customers, your connection to the service...