Get ready to scale out SQL Azure databases beyond today's 50GB limit with the Transact-SQL and ADO.NET elastic sharding features, which are coming in the 2011 SQL Azure Federation Community Technology ...

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Microsoft rolled out its fourth-quarter service release of Windows Azure on Saturday. The new release is packed with open source interoperability improvements, expanded database capacity and so-called ...

Microsoft issued the fourth-quarter service release of its Windows Azure cloud computing platform on Saturday, with an emphasis on open source interoperability improvements, expanded database capacity ...

What is a Cloud Database? Cloud databases are a hot new idea to the world of computing. Everyone is talking about the “cloud” and how it is going to revolutionize database storage. But what is a cloud ...

Microsoft has rolled out a big update to its Azure cloud computing platform to make it cheaper, easier to manage, easier to scale, and easier to use with popular open source software. Full details of ...

Microsoft has rolled out its latest batch of Windows Azure and SQL Azure updates, company officials said on December 12. The updates include final delivery of some open-source-related functionality, ...

Today, you can rent a 50GB SQL Azure database for $499.95 per month, but the SQL Azure Team isn't talking publicly about future scale-up options. Instead, Microsoft recommends that you scale out your ...

Microsoft rolled out its fourth-quarter service release of Windows Azure on Saturday. The new release is packed with open source interoperability improvements, expanded database capacity and so-called ...