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Thursday, July 09, 2009 6:18 PM

SQL Azure - Same great platform, just a better aligned name

Yesterday we announced a branding update to SQL Azure (formerly SQL Services). I think you will agree that our new name is a better fit. If you look across the Windows platform, you will see a consistent branding theme that runs the gamut from Windows
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Monday, September 22, 2008 10:08 PM

Dave Campbell talks about extending the Data Platform to the Cloud

Here is a little teaser on what we are upto from a direction perspective. Dave Campbell talks about what to expect at PDC 2008 as we extend our Data Platform to the Cloud. As I said before, Dave has been involved with everything SQL since the very beginning
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Thursday, September 18, 2008 6:53 PM

SSDS at PDC 2008

It is around 40 days to PDC and the excitement is building. We have a ton of work to do between now and then and the team is heads down getting ready for this major event. If you look at the PDC 2008 breakout sessions already announced, it is incredible
Posted by Soumitra Sengupta | 3 Comments
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 6:41 AM

Trade-offs all around in SQL Server Data Services (SSDS)

David Robinson talks about concurrency here . Roger comments about David's take on concurrency here . In SSDS, we make several important trade-offs: a. We give up some latency because of quorum based commits in favor of aggregate throughput. Theoretically
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Wednesday, July 02, 2008 8:34 AM

Roger Jennings talks about SSDS in a Visual Studio Magazine Article

Roger has an interesting article on SSDS in the latest Visual Studio Magazine here . It is really interesting to see the performance data between the SOAP and the REST end points of SSDS. It would be really interesting to dig into this. One bit of correction
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Friday, June 27, 2008 7:21 AM

Philosophy behind the design of SSDS and some personal thoughts

With Sprint 3 winding down, I thought it is a good time for me to share with you some of the philosophy behind the design of SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) and a few personal thoughts about the experience. When we started this project 2 years back, we
Posted by Soumitra Sengupta | 1 Comments
Sunday, June 22, 2008 6:48 AM

Confusion about Full Text Search in SSDS

When I posted the features that we delivered in Sprint 2, I mentioned Full Text Search. This led to this blog statement " In the meantime, I’m waiting for the docs to try full-text search, which was part of Sprint 2. It’s not over until … the docs are
Posted by Soumitra Sengupta | 3 Comments
Monday, May 26, 2008 5:53 PM

Sprint 2 goes live

Last week our Sprint 2 bits went live. We added several compelling features to our backend service, some of which will show up in the SSDS service in the upcoming Sprints. Key features added include: a. Full text index and search b. Multiple B-Trees -
Posted by kellyalt | 2 Comments
Monday, May 19, 2008 7:20 PM

What is going on at SQL Server Data Services

The SSDS team is taking major steps this week and I thought of sharing the work we have done over the last 2 months with you, our readers. We announced our "restricted beta" at MIX 08 . The response was great and thank you all for your interest in SSDS.
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Thursday, May 01, 2008 10:40 PM

Tudor and Soumitra talk about SSDS value prop with Ryan

Agility (faster time to market), scale with your need and business ready SLA - Tudor and Soumitra highlight the core value propositions of SSDS on Channel 9 . Thanks Ryan for doing the interview.
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008 3:27 PM

Cross container queries in SSDS

Eugenio Pace in his 5th article in a series on SSDS gives a pattern for cross container queries. The article can be found here . This is an important scenario since SSDS partitions data into containers to scale out the system. But it actually limits scenarios
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Monday, April 07, 2008 10:04 PM

Istvan and Nigel talk about SSDS and data services in the Cloud

Ryan Dunn , Technical Evangelist, recently interviewed Istvan Cseri, SSDS Architect and Nigel Ellis, SSDS Development Manager and Architect about SSDS and their vision for Cloud Data Services. He posted his interview at Channel 9. Check it out here .
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Thursday, April 03, 2008 3:50 PM

Jeff has posted some SOAP samples

Most of the sample code that Jeff, Jason and David Robinson have posted so far show you how to use the REST interface when coding against SSDS. Jeff has just posted his first SOAP example here . We are interested in finding out how many out there will
Posted by kellyalt | 2 Comments
Friday, March 28, 2008 8:35 AM

Interesting take from Rick Negris over at AjaxWorld magazine

As Rick points out here , there are very few articles written about SSDS in the technical press. We did not want to make a lot of noise about this service at this time. This is an "invitation only" beta and the service is not generally released. While
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Thursday, March 20, 2008 3:39 AM

Interesting post

Found this through David Robinson's blog . David is a Program Manager in the SSDS team and one of the first guys to write an application using SSDS. I do not know Max but I know what he is talking about. Thanks Max for explaining the value proposition
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