Azure SQL

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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.]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.