Databases

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).

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[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.

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[This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.]I love GUIDs — the uniqueidentifier data type in SQL Server.

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