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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

SQL Azure architecture


SQL Azure has a four-layered architecture, a Client Layer followed by a Services Layer, a Platform Layer, and finally the Infrastructure Layer. A schematic of the architecture is shown in the following diagram:

The Infrastructure Layer has all the associated hardware in the Microsoft Data Center as described in Chapter 1, Cloud Computing and Microsoft Azure Services Platform, managed automatically by the SQL Azure Fabric. The Platform Layer, which is above the Infrastructure Layer, has all the SQL Server clusters managed by the fabric as well as the Management Services. The Services Layer above the Platform Layer does all of the business logic, provisioning, connection routing, billing, and so on. The Client Layer above the Platform Layer can be at the client site or at the client's hosted site with all the applications that need access to SQL Azure.

Microsoft client technologies such as ODBC, ADO.NET, residing in the client site (or, in the Windows Azure Platform...

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