Chapter 9. SQL Azure
SQL Azure is Microsoft's relational database service in the cloud. Any enterprise application, either cloud or on-premises, is incomplete without the support of a backend database. The database can be used to store business data, consumer data, or system data.
Applications are volatile, whereas databases are persistent. Front-end web applications usually depend on databases to persist business and system data. Therefore, databases usually are the bottleneck in a system and need careful attention when you're architecting scalability, high availability, and performance for a system. You can scale-out front-end web applications by adding more load-balanced nodes; but to scale-out database servers, you need to not only scale out ...
Get Windows Azure Platform now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
