Get ready to scale out SQL Azure databases beyond today's 50GB limit with the Transact-SQL and ADO.NET elastic sharding features, which are coming in the 2011 SQL Azure Federation Community Technology ...

Microsoft rolled out its fourth-quarter service release of Windows Azure on Saturday. The new release is packed with open source interoperability improvements, expanded database capacity and so-called ...

Microsoft has rolled out a big update to its Azure cloud computing platform to make it cheaper, easier to manage, easier to scale, and easier to use with popular open source software. Full details of ...

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Microsoft issued the fourth-quarter service release of its Windows Azure cloud computing platform on Saturday, with an emphasis on open source interoperability improvements, expanded database capacity ...

Federation Members comprise the collection of SQL Azure databases that contain related tables with partitioned data, called Federated Tables. A Federation Member also can contain replicated lookup ...