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Microsoft entered the cloud-computing space a few years ago with the vision to provide organizations a set of services they could use to build applications faster, with reduced maintenance requirements and with as much transparent scalability and availability as possible. As part of this vision, Microsoft created Windows Azure SQL Database (or SQL Database for short), a relational database service for the cloud, which delivers configuration-free high availability and scalability at a reasonable cost.
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© 2012 Bradley Ball, TJay Belt, Glenn Berry, Jes Borland, Carlos Bossy, Louis Davidson, Jeremy Lowell, Ben DeBow, Grant Fritchey, Wendy Pastrick, Kellyn Pot’vin, Jonathan Gardner, Jesper Johansen, Mladen Prajdić, Herve Roggero, Chris Shaw, Gail Shaw, Jason Strate
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Roggero, H. (2012). Windows Azure SQL Database for DBAs. In: Pro SQL Server 2012 Practices. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-4771-5_12
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