Summary
Cloud computing, in general, is gaining significant traction in the IT marketplace, but even as it does so, hybrid approaches that combine cloud services with on-premises technology, are emerging as the most common pattern in cloud technology adoption. And because SQL Azure is at once a cloud-centric service and a product featuring significant commonality with on-premises SQL Server, it is very well suited for this market environment.
We’ve seen in this chapter that SQL Azure can be used completely on its own, using browser-based tooling for provisioning, managing, designing, and querying. We have discussed how the Federations feature helps SQL Azure databases scale and accommodates the kind of multi-tenancy scenarios that occur frequently ...
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