I take this opportunity to record my sincere thanks to, Microsoft Corporation for evaluation software and allowing me to participate in their events including the boot camps; the third party vendors for evaluation copy of their cloud related software and to Neudesic for giving me a chance to attend their boot camp. I am benefited immensely with my association with the Microsoft MSDN and TECHNET forums and I am thankful for the many forum participants and the moderators for helpful suggestions and answering some of my questions.
Here are the chapter titles of the new book:
1. Cloud Computing and Microsoft Azure Services Platform
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
9. Synchronizing SQL Azure
10.Recent Developments
Some of the details of what you can learn copied from Packt Site is reproduced here:
- An easy to understand briefing on Microsoft Windows Azure Platform Services
- Connect to SQL Azure using Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio
- Create and manipulate objects on SQL Azure using different tools
- Master the different types of Cloud offerings
- Access SQL Azure through best practices using Client and Server API’s in VB and C# and using hosted services with user authentication Windows Azure
- Learn how to populate the SQL Azure database using various techniques
- Create Business Intelligence Applications using SSIS and SSRS
- Synchronize databases on SQL Azure with on-site enterprise and compact SQL Servers
- Learn how to write an application to access on-site data from a cloud hosted service
- Get a comprehensive briefing on various updates that have been made to SQL Azure and the projects still in incubation
- Understand the future and evolving programs such as the Houston Project, OData Services, Sync Services, and more built to support SQL Azure and transform it into a global enterprise data platform
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