Lynn LangitSr. Developer EvangelistMicrosoft CorporationBlogs.msdn.com/SoCalDevGal

What’s New in Microsoft SQL Azure

SESSION CODE: DAT209

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Developer ExperienceUse existing skills and tools

The Windows Azure Platform

platformAppFabric

Compute Storage Management Relational data Management Connectivity Access control Reporting & BI

Billing & Payments

Flexible APIs

Information Marketplace

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SQL Azure DatabaseThe first and only true relational database as a service

Elastic Scale Developer Agility

Self-managed

• Database utility; pay as you grow

• Flexible load balancing• Business-ready SLAs• Enable multi-tenant

solutions• World-wide presence

• Easy provisioning and deployment

• Auto high-availability and fault tolerance

• Self-maintaining infrastructure; self-healing

• No need for server or VM administration

• Build cloud-based database solutions on consistent relational model

• Leverage existing skills through existing ecosystem of developer and management tools

• Explore new data application patterns

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Customer Scenario - Events, Promotions, Product Launches

Solution

Elastic scale – database as a servicePay as you grow and shrinkEasy to provision and manage databaseNo hardware, no manual database administration required

Promotions, events, ticket selling businesses are “bursts – bound” by natureCapacity constraints limit business agilityHigh costs of entry into new businessDifficult to roll out extra capacity quicklyIdle capacity “off-bursts” is cost prohibitive

Capa

city

Time

“Capacity Bursting“

Average Usage

Average Usage Com

pute

#

of H

r’s

“Without SQL Azure, we wouldn’t be

able to do this. And that means we

couldn't do it on any

cloud platform other than Windows Azure.

SQL Azure is really a cloud -optimized Database.

Chris Auid, Director of Strategy and Innovation,

Challenges Today

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SQL Azure High Level ArchitectureApplicat

ionInterne

tAzure Cloud

LBTDS (tcp)

TDS (tcp)

TDS (tcp)

Applications use standard SQL client libraries: ODBC, ADO.Net, PHP, …

Load balancer forwards ‘sticky’ sessions to TDS protocol tier

Security Boundary

Gateway

Gateway

Gateway

Gateway

Gateway

Gateway

Scalability and Availability: Fabric, Failover, Replication, and Load balancing

SQL SQL SQL SQL SQLSQL

Gateway: TDS protocol gateway, enforces AUTHN/AUTHZ policy; proxy to backend SQL

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Service Provisioning ModelEach account has zero or more servers

Azure wide, provisioned in a common portalEstablished a Billing instrument

Each server has one or more databasesLogical concept equal to a master DBContains metadata about database & usageUnit of authentication, geo-location, billing, reportingGenerated DNS-based name

Each database has standard SQL objectsUsers, Tables, Views, Indices, etcUnit of consistency

Account

Server

Database

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The Journey So Far…

…On To The New Stuff!

20102009Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2

PDC 2008Initial CTPSQL Server

Data Services

MIX 2009Announce

Relational Database as a

Service

July 20091st Production Deployment

MS Internal Property

PDC 2009Service

Launch

Windows Azure

Platform

Feb 2010Commercial Availability Windows Azure

Platform

Post LaunchNew Countries

New Service Updates

New Data Centers

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50GB Database Support

You create a Web or Business Edition databaseYou specify (or modify) MAXSIZE

Web: MAXSIZE = 1 GB| 5 GBBusiness: MAXSIZE = 10 | 20 | … | 50This is the size we will not let you grow beyond

You will only be charged for the actual (peak) size of your database (in any one day)

Up to 50 GB10 GB increments

Business Edition

Up to 5 GBEither 1 GB or 5

GB

Web Edition

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Geo-Spatial DataType Support2D Vector Data:

Geography – Round-Earth dataGeometry – Flat-Earth data

Support for Point, Line, Area (Polygon) objectsOver 70 T-SQL spatial methodsHigh-performance spatial indicesSpatial industry standard supportSymmetry w/ SQL Server 2008

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Best Integration – Mgmt / Dev Tools -

SQL Server Reporting ServiceSQL Server Integration Service

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Houston Client - DEMO

http://sqlazurelabs.com/houston.aspx

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SQL Azure Web Management - DEMOProject Houston - https://www.sqlazurelabs.com

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Houston Tool

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New Tools for Data Migration - DEMO

Copy Database commandCREATE DATABASE DB2A AS COPY OF Server1.DB1A

SQL Azure Migration Wizard (CodePlex) - hereMigration Assistant for Access or for MySQL – here or herehttps://www.sqlazurelabs.com

DataSync (CTP)OData (CTP)

More at ‘Migrate SQL Azure’ session tomorrow at 8:30am in room A5

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Getting Data Where You Need ItSQL Azure Data Sync Service

Benefits• Scale-out read or

read/write• Geo replication of data• Edge network data

distribution• Content delivery

networks

Sync Grou

p

SQL Azure

SQL Azure

SQL Azure

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SQL Azure Data Sync – Overview

Offline-Capable Cached Mode Applications

On-Premises

Applications

SyncGroup

SQL Azure

SQL Azure

SQL Azure

Data Sync

Data Sync

Remote Offices & Retail Stores

Data Sync

SQL Azure Data Sync

http://azure.com

SQL Azure Data Sync Service

http://sqlazurelabs.com

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Broad Reach – OData Support (Labs)

JSONATOM

PUBHTTP

Sign up and send us your feedback!

https://www.sqlazurelabs.com

Open Data Protocol

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Best Integration – Office 2010 - DEMO

PowerPivot Report Builder

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Added new Dynamic Management Views (DMVs)

Allows return of state information for health monitoring & performance tuningsys.dm_exec_connections , _requests , _sessions, _tran_database_transactions, _active_transactions, _partition_stats

Added ability to move between Web or Business edition

ALTER DATABASE database_name { MODIFY (MAXSIZE = {1 | 10} GB) }

Increased idle session conn timeout (from 5 to 30 minutes)

Improves experience while using connection pooling and other interactive tools

Improved long running transaction algorithm Allows import and export of much larger amounts of data without having to chunk your data

Added - Feb 2010

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Added availability in 20 more countries (now 41 total)

Complete list here Started with 21 countries, now doubled

Added support for MARSSimplifies the design process

Added support for ALTER (rename) DatabaseAdds features found in RDMS to SQL Azure

Included support in Visual Studio 2010 to manage SQL Azure

Allows direct management of SQL Azure databases via Server ExplorerAlso found in SQL Server Management Studio

Added new labs feature - sandboxhttps://www.sqlazurelabs.com/

Added - April 2010

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Added upper size limit of 50 GBAvailable June 28, 2010Initial discount on upgrading maximum size

Added support for Spatial Data TypesSupport for Geography & Geometry data types and queriesSupport for HierarchyID data types (tree-like database structures)

Added support DataSync Service for SQL Azure

Initially available in CTP via sqlazurelabs.com

Announced SQL Server Web Manager Web-based SQL Azure management toolInitially available as CTP in summer 2010

Added Access 10 support for SQL AzureSupport from Office 2010 to SQL Azure

Added - June 2010

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Added Database copy capabilitiesSame server or cross serverCREATE DATABASE DB2A AS COPY OF Server1.DB1A Monitor via sys.dm_database_copies

Increased MSDN documentation for common programming scenarios (with code examples)Enhanced Project Houston

Supported in multiple data centersView and StoredProc designers added

Added - August 2010

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SQL Web Management and Administration (SWA)Partitioning UtilityProfiler-like traces / deadlock graphsGeo-location and geo-redundancyDistributed querySecurity w/AD, WLID, etcSupport for multiple levels of hardware and software isolationBI features – SSRS, etc…

Opportunities and Futures

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Related ContentBreakout Sessions

AZP301 – A Lap Around the Azure PlatformAZP302 – Using Visual Studio 2010 to Build Applications that run on AzureDAT207 – What’s New in Microsoft SQL AzureAZP303 – Migrating Applications to Microsoft SQL Azure

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Track ResourcesTeam Blog – http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlazure

MSDN Dev Center – http://msdn.microsoft.com/azure/sqlazure

Read my article in MSDN Magazine (November 2010) – “SQL Azure for Developers”

Windows Azure Platform Training Kit - http://bit.ly/dgvMv0

SQL Azure Labs – http://www.sqlazurelabs.com

Follow us on Twitter - @sqlazure

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Resources

www.microsoft.com/teched

Sessions On-Demand & Community Microsoft Certification & Training Resources

Resources for IT Professionals Resources for Developers

www.microsoft.com/learning

http://microsoft.com/technet http://microsoft.com/msdn

Learning

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TeachingKidsProgramming.org

• Do a Recipe Teach a Kid• Free Courseware (recipes)• Ages 10 ++• Microsoft SmallBasic

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