1. Building Applications Using SQL Azure Name Job Title Microsoft Corporation

3. Intended Audience: Database Developers, Database Architects

4. Objectives (what do you want the audience to take away):

5. Understand the basic concepts of building SQL Azure apps

6. Presentation Outline:

7. SQL Azure Overview

8. Setting Up a SQL Azure Account

9. Connecting to SQL Azure

10. Managing Logins and Security

11. Creating Objects

12. Migrating Database Schemas

13. Moving Data

14. Special Considerations

17. Leverages existing skills and rich tooling ecosystem

19. Highly symmetrical

20. Highly scaled

22. Symmetry w/ on-premises database platform

23. Automatic high-availability and fault-tolerance

24. Automated DB maintenance (infrastructure)

25. Simple, flexible pricing – “pay as you grow”T-SQL (TDS) T-SQL (TDS) SQL Azure Database - AD Federation (LiveId /AppFabric AC)

26. SQL Azure Network Topology Applications use standard SQL client libraries: ODBC, ADO.Net, … Application TDS (tcp:1433) Load balancer forwards ‘sticky’ sessions to TDS protocol tier Load Balancer TDS (tcp: 1433) Gateway Gateway Gateway Gateway Gateway Gateway Data Node Data Node Data Node Data Node Data Node Data Node TDS (tcp: 1433) Scalability and Availability: Fabric, Failover, Replication and Load balancing

28. Data Hub “An aggregation of Enterprise, Partner, Desktop, and Device data within SQL Azure” Windows Azure Enterprise Azure App On-premises App ADO.NET, ODBC, … SQL Azure Data Sync Service Sync Enterprise Sync Sync User Management Device Device Management Desktop Client App Client App Sync Gateway Business Logic / Rules Sync Client Sync Client

30. Azure wide, provisioned in a common portal

31. Billing instrument

32. Each server has one or more databases

33. Contains metadata about the databases and usage

34. Unit of authentication

35. Unit of Geo-location

36. Generated DNS based name

37. Each database has standard SQL objects

38. Unit of consistency

39. Unit of multi-tenancy

40. Contains Users, Tables, Views, Indices, etc.

41. Most granular unit of billingAccount Server Database

43. Tokens will generally be provisioned within a couple days

44. Redeeming tokens

45. Setup administrative user

47. SQL AzureDeployment DB Script SQL Azure TDS Gateway

48. SQL AzureAccessing databases Change Connection String Your App SQL Azure TDS Gateway

50. OLE DB is NOT supported

51. May need to include <login>@<server>

52. USE statement is NOT currently supported

53. Use familiar tools (sqlcmd, osql, SSMS, etc)

54. Current version of SSMS is not fully supported but it works (demo to come)

57. On-premise SQL Server security concepts still apply

58. Server-level: sds_dbcreator, sds_securityadmin roles

59. Database-level: same as on-premise SQL Server

60. SSMS Object Explorer is NOT currently supported

63. Constraints

64. Cursors

65. Index management and rebuilding indexes

66. Local temporary tables

67. Reserved keywords

68. Stored procedures

69. Statistics management

70. Transactions

71. Triggers

72. Tables, joins, and table variables

73. Transact-SQL language elements such as

74. Create/drop databases

75. Create/alter/drop tables

76. Create/alter/drop users and logins

77. …

78. User-defined functions

80. Database file placement

81. Database mirroring

82. Distributed queries

83. Distributed transactions

84. Filegroup management

85. Full Text Search

86. Global temporary tables

87. Spatial data and indexes

88. SQL Server configuration options

89. SQL Server Service Broker

90. System tables

93. Generate script wizard from SSMS currently creates unsupported DDL

94. SQL Server Management Studio 2008 R2 has increased support for SQL Azure

97. SQL Server Integration Services

98. Available in Developer and Trial editions

99. Use ADO.NET endpoint

100. BCP (bulk copy) is supported

103. Database size calculation

104. Includes: primary replica data, objects and indexes

105. Does NOT include: logs, master database, system tables, server catalogs or additional replicas

106. V1 does not support auto-partitioning or fan-out queries

107. Must handle partitioning logic within the application

112. Hands on Labs in Windows Azure Platform Training Kit

114. Windows Azure Platform Training Kithttp://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=413E88F8-5966-4A83-B309-53B7B77EDF78&displaylang=en

115. MSDN Development Centerhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/dataservices

117. Q & A

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