SQLBits 2012

Scaling out your Cloud Database with SQL Azure Federations

In this presentation, we provide an introduction to SQL Azure Federations and also show some interesting patterns that provide additional capabilities such as scale-out query processing, cross-shard schema management and multi-key sharding.
In order to building a successful internet-based application, you often need to scale-out your data processing to be able to scale your data processing needs with your business needs. In 2011, we introduced SQL Azure Federations to enable building application-aware scale-out solutions with SQL Azure. In this presentation, we provide an introduction to SQL Azure Federations and also show some interesting patterns that provide additional capabilities such as scale-out query processing, cross-shard schema management and multi-key sharding.