Notes on SQL Azure Present and Future

by mheydt 18. November 2009 02:45 >
SQL Azure Database
  • Highly scaled out relational database as a service
  • Accessible via TDS
  • SOAP/REST/ADO.NET/EDM/HTTP/HTTPs
  • On premise access via SSRS
Customer value props:
  • Self provisioning and capacity on demand
  • Symmetry with on promesis database
  • Automatic high availability and fault-tolerance
  • Automated DB maintenance
Provisioning:
  • Account as zero or more servers, billing instrument
  • Each server contains one or more database
    • Metadata
    • Unit of security
    • Unit of geo-location
    • Logical grouping of DBs
  • Each database has standard objects: unit of consistency, users, tables, views, indices, etc..
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Future:
  • Improve tools
  • Improve operational model
  • Improve application programming model
Saas:
  • Mention of provisioning API's outside of the portal
  • Template databases
  • Metadata tracking
  • Additional billing scenarios
Single unit for deployment and upgrades
Data Synch

Upgrade and downgrade options between SKU's
Read only databases

Scale out support:
  • Today
    • workload partitioning
    • but cluster managmeent is difficult
    • Scale out addressed today:
      • high availability
      • Zero admin
      • No downtime
      • Elastic resources
      • Pay as you grow
      • No friction provisioning
      • Never run out of hardware
  • Future
    • More scale out
      • Dynamic database splits
      • Ability to merge databases
      • Improved schema management across groups of databases
      • Additional database size options
      • multiple database connection management
      • Support for fan-out query
  • Recent requests from customers
    • Profillers, DMVs
    • Spatial data types
    • Full text support
    • Change tracking
    • CLR
    • BI
    • Encryption
    • WIF

Tags:

Azure | Cloud

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