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Microsoft SQL Azure Enterprise Application Development

You're reading from   Microsoft SQL Azure Enterprise Application Development Moving business applications and data to the cloud can be a smooth operation when you use this practical guide. Learn to make the most of SQL Azure and acquire the knowledge to build enterprise-ready applications.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849680806
Length 420 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jayaram Krishnaswamy Jayaram Krishnaswamy
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Microsoft SQL Azure: Enterprise Application Development
Credits
About the Author
1. Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
2. Preface
1. Cloud Computing and Microsoft Azure Services Platform FREE CHAPTER 2. SQL Azure Services 3. Working with SQL Azure Databases from Visual Studio 2008 4. SQL Azure Tools 5. Populating SQL Azure Databases 6. SSIS and SSRS Applications Using SQL Azure 7. Working with Windows Azure Hosting 8. Database Applications on Windows Azure Platform Accessing SQL Server Databases 9. Synchronizing SQL Azure 10. Recent Developments

Microsoft tools


As we have seen earlier, SQL Azure is a subset of SQL Server 2008 R2 and, as such, the tools that are used with SQL Server can also be used with SQL Azure, albeit with only some of the features supported. The Microsoft tools can also be divided further between those that are accessed from the Visual Studio series of products and those that are not. However, it appears that with Visual Studio 2010, the SSMS may be largely redundant for most commonly used tasks.

Visual Studio related

From the very beginning, Visual Studio supported developing data-centric applications working together with the existing version of SQL Server, as well as MS Access databases, and databases from third parties. The various client APIs such as ODBC, OLEDB, and ADO.NET made this happen, not only for direct access to manipulate data on the server, but also for supporting web-facing applications to interact with the databases.

There are two versions, of particular interest to SQL Azure, that are specially...

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