Database Design and Windows Azure Data Storage ◾ 61
Database server is 150, including the system database master. Each row in a Windows Azure
SQL Database table can contain 1024 columns, which can be up to 8 MB in size. For security
reasons, some of the commonly known user names such as admin, administrator, guest, root,
and sa cannot be used in Windows Azure SQL Database. To efficiently use Windows Azure
SQL Database resources, the connection to Windows Azure SQL Database will be automatically
closed under circumstances such as idle for 30 min or longer, failover due to server failures, or
excessive resource usage.
Most of the remote access tools and database management tools available to Microsoft SQL
Server are also available to Windows A ...