Databases

In this final post in our series on Business Continuity I’m going to look at point-in-time restore, a self-service feature available for Basic, Standard, and Premium databases.

This post describes some simple steps and guidelines on the process of using the information from this DMV to evaluate and pick the right performance tier for your database workload.

If you are working on an LAMP or WAMP application and want to host it on Azure , Azure websites is the fastest and most reliable way to host your application on Azure.

Following on the heels of last week’s announcement, I am pleased to announce more news about our efforts to deliver a rich, connected set of data services on Azure, as part of our broader data platform.

The new preview Azure Redis Cache is really easy to plug into your Azure web app. I had it plugged into my MVC Movie sample app, deployed to Azure and running in under 17 minutes (15 minutes to plug it in and test locally).

[This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.

[This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.

[This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.]As a DBA I have done a lot of work improving I/O performance for on-premise SQL Server installations.

[This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.] The Open Data Protocol (OData) is an emerging standard for querying and updating data over the Web.

[This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.]When you generate a SQL Azure server via the SQL Azure portal, you generate a user name and password at the same time.

[This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.]BCP is a great way to locally backup your SQL Azure data, and by modifying your BCP based backup files you can import data into SQL Azure as well.

[This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.