Well I’m finally on the Azure CTP servers! If anyone has been hiding in a cave Azure is the Microsoft play at getting Microsoft SQL Server into the cloud. After creating an account you can create and drop databases in the ‘cloud’.
Definitely pretty cool stuff. Now to see how well it performs and verify it supports all the nice SQ L stuff (sparse columns, PIVOT, stored procedures etc).
This will certainly be hyped by Microsoft over the coming weeks, and we will be trying it out! Much more to come on this topic,
Gareth
, but if you work with virtual machines (and you know who you are!) and have been ever frustrated by speed or it just not feeling normal then just check out the boot to VHD feature!: