Today we announced the details of our plans to accelerate the delivery of core relational database features as part of SDS. There has been quite a bit of buzz about SDS over the past couple weeks and it is great to be able to share the details more broadly...

One of the great things about Windows Azure is that it handles the deployment, monitoring, and management of your service so that you have more time to focus on the business logic. Until recently, realizing these benefits meant your code had to run under...

One of our goals for MIX was to give our developers more flexibility while ensuring they still benefit from the unique time-saving deployment, monitoring, and management features of Windows Azure. One way in which we went about this was to enable IIS...

First things first: we're sorry. As a result of a malfunction in Windows Azure, many participants in our Community Technology Preview (CTP) experienced degraded service or downtime. Windows Azure storage was unaffected. In the rest of this post, I...

At MIX 09, we are announcing that we’ll be launching a set of ‘geo’-related features. We’ll be rolling out the features to all our users very soon. In Microsoft-speak, we are ‘super-excited’ about this since we can finally unveil in public what we’ve...

Since we announced our Community Technology Preview (CTP) in November our team has gathered input from customers all over the world in every major industry. The feedback is very helpful in this early stage of the CTP as we prioritize new features. ...

Hello again from MIX ’09! Nigel Ellis just finished up the MIX session on SDS: What’s New in Microsoft SQL Data Services (MIX09-T06F). (Edit: The talk is available for online viewing from here ). Attendance was surprisingly good for 9am on Friday...

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Developers using the Windows Azure CTP have been asking about the roadmap for SQL Data Services. Today the team detailed some important announcements most importantly they will deliver full relational database capabilities delivered as a service. Also...

Hey Everyone, Jeff Currier, one of our superstar, non-slacker, dev leads has put together some examples for accessing SDS from both C# and Java. The C# example can be found here and the Java one here . In the C# example Jeff also gives a good explanation...

.NET Services Team is excited to announce the release of the .NET Services March 2009 CTP. There are many exciting improvements in cross-platform interoperability, Services Bus and Workflow Service capabilities and the developer experience. To learn more...

Hi! For those who I haven’t met yet, I’m Patric McElroy and I’m the GPM for the SDS team. I’ve been with the team since last summer and it has been an amazing ride so far – lots of progress, lots of learning and lots of cool stuff ahead of us. For most...

Just some quick info on the SQL Data Services session at Mix next week. The session details are as follows: What's New in Microsoft SQL Data Services MIX09-T06F Friday March 20 |9:00 AM - 10:15 AM | San Polo 3504 By: Nigel Ellis Tags...

As a follow-up to our earlier post " Moving to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) ", I'd like to announce that we've locked down on a timeline. We'll begin the migration to UTC starting this Sunday, March 8th, at 10:00am GMT. For details about the change...

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Developers using the Windows Azure CTP have been asking about the roadmap for SQL Data Services. Today the team detailed some important announcements most importantly they will deliver full relational database capabilities delivered as a service. Also...