I am extremely happy to announce the public preview of our new Data Sync Service for SQL Azure . For those of you who have been following this blog, you might recall our Project “ Huron ”. In this project we talked about our vision of creating a Data Hub in the cloud to provide users with...

[Please note that this tool has been deprecated and is no longer available. Please use SQL Azure Data Sync. More details can be found here ] Today in the opening keynote at PDC we announced the availability of SQL Azure Data Sync – November CTP, an early preview open to the public through...

Yesterday was the first day of the SQL Server conference, SQL Pass , here in Seattle. It was a really exciting day for me because I had the opportunity to present our new synchronization capabilities to the cloud in the opening day keynote and in a subsequent session. We introduced the first piece...

I thought I would help get the word out on this one. Given that we have been spending so much time on Project "Huron" , which is a project to enable data synchronization to the cloud where the data store is SQL Data Services SQL Azure Database, I thought you should all be aware of this new branding....

Hopefully a number of you will be attending this years TechEd in Los Angeles. This year I will be co-presenting with David Robinson where we will be discussing SQL Data Services and our "Huron" Data Hub project. I am really looking forward to showing you our latest demo so I hope you can all make it...

I wanted to give an update on our Project "Huron" . For those new to it, this is an incubation project that we have been working on for some time to provide database "friction free" (this is a one fo those Microsoft terms that basically means simple to setup :-)) synchronization capabilities to the Cloud...

After a healthy dumping of March snow here in Redmond yesterday, the clouds have changed and it is now a clear and sunny day. Kind of appropriate I think given the announcement from our sister team SQL Data Services this morning. In today’s announcement it was stated that SQL Data Services: "will...