[This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.]

Microsoft SQL Azure provide for a suite of great relational-database-in-the-cloud features. In this video, join Hilton Giesenow, host of The Moss Show SharePoint Podcast, as he explores how to sign up and get started creating a Microsoft SQL Azure database. In this video we also look at how to connect to the SQL Azure database using the latest release of Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express (R2) as well as how to configure an existing on-premises ASP.NET application to speak to SQL Azure.

View the Video here.