
Windows Azure SQL Database Views, Indexes, andFederations ◾ 285
8.4 Federations
Federations in Windows Azure SQL Database can be used to improve performance and to achieve
better scalability. When multiple applications are accessing a single data source, they may cause a
data I/O bottleneck. One way to ease the bottleneck is to split a database object such as a table and
place each part into different partitions. Windows Azure SQL Database Federation is a collection
of the partitions of one or more database objects. With federations, database administrators are
able to systematically build and manage partitions. e processing of a federation ...