Microsoft SQL Azure: Enterprise Application Development
Cloud Computing and Microsoft Azure Services Platform
Why a business would like to move its business applications and data to the cloud
How cloud computing is implemented with examples of some major cloud computing vendors
Getting started with Azure Platform and accessing services
Overview of SQL Azure Services
Accessing SQL Azure Services from the portal
Creating a user database and setting up a firewall
Connecting to SQL Azure from SQL Server Management Studio
Working with SQL Azure from SQL Server Management Studio
Basic administration of the database objects
Basic monitoring of the database
Working with SQL Azure Databases from Visual Studio 2008
Microsoft data access technologies
The easy way to connect to SQL Azure using ADO.NET 3.5, ODBC, and OLE DB
Application using a SqlConnectionStringBuilder to connect to SQL Azure
Using SQL Server Management Objects (SMO) to connect to SQL Azure
Creating database objects using ADO.NET
Creating database objects with SQL Server API
Populating SQL Azure Databases
Sample databases used in this chapter
Using SQL Server Management Studio with scripts
Using the SQL Server Migration wizard
Migration from MySQL to SQL Azure using SQL Server Migration Assistant 2008 for MySQL
SSIS and SSRS Applications Using SQL Azure
Moving a MySQL database to SQL Azure database
Creating a report using SQL Azure as data source
Accessing SQL Azure from Report Builder 3.0
Working with Windows Azure Hosting
Tools needed to develop and host Cloud Service applications
Create and deploy an ASP.NET application
Windows Azure ASP.NET site with forms authentication
Database Applications on Windows Azure Platform Accessing SQL Server Databases
Using SQL Azure Data Sync Tool
Synchronizing SQL Azure data with SQL Server Compact
OpenOffice Access to SQL Azure
Accessing SQL Azure with non-.NET Framework languages
Consuming SQL Azure data with PowerPivot
More third-party tools to SQL Azure
Managing SQL Azure databases with the Houston Project (CTP1)
Data Application Component and SQL Azure