Cloud Computing

In the last entry, we looked at basic querying with a web browser and viewing service metrics. This entry will examine administrative commands and bulk uploading options using the SDS administration utility (st.exe) which is part of the SDS SDK. Migrating Data To SQL Data Services There’s really no fun […]

In the previous entry we reviewed how to create entities,  but what do we do now? Before I go into detail on how to interact with SDS directly, let’s take some time to go over the fundamentals of querying with SDS.  This entry will focus on some of the techniques […]

In the last entry, we established a way of programmatically creating an SDS Authority and Containers.  In this entry we will focus on creating data Entities using the SOAP interface. Review In Part 1, we saw how the relationship is defined between objects in the SQL Data Services world.  An […]

In Part 1, we were introduced to the concept of SQL Data Services (SDS) and the fundamental design.  In Part 2, we looked at the options for authentication, data access and the SDS SDK (helpful tools). In this entry we will look at using the SOAP interface to create an […]

Yesterday, Part 1 in this series introduced you to the basic fundamentals behind SQL Data Services (SDS). The official definition of SQL Data Services is below. “Microsoft SQL Data Services (SDS) offers highly scalable and Internet-facing distributed database services in the cloud for storing and processing relational queries. SDS can […]

Recently, SQL Data Services (SDS) were published as a Community Technical Preview (CTP).  Registering via Microsoft Connect, I’ve been able to start building a sample application which is designed to make use of SDS for online real-time queries. This blog entry forms part of the [MiniProject] documentation – the Mini […]