Microsoft integrates SQL Server into Windows Azure

10/29/2010 12:37 PM

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Microsoft recently announced it will integrate its SQL Server into Windows Azure as a "building block" service in the company's effort to keep developers engaged in its cloud computing platform.

SQL Server reporting tools can now be used to build reports that draw on information in SQL Azure in the cloud or use SQL Azure to build reports that will be implanted in the on-premise application. SQL Azure Reporting is now available in customer technology preview, along with SQL Azure Datasynch, Microsoft said.

Microsoft is "starting to make it simpler to develop applications that function as hybrid business processes - part on-premise, part in the cloud. A key part of that move is to get SQL Azure in the cloud to function like SQL Server on premises," according to an InformationWeek report.

The changes mean developers with relational database skills no longer need to learn the exceptions and special conditions that rule SQL Azure versus SQL Server, according to InformationWeek.

Microsoft made the SQL Server announcement at its Professional Developers Conference. The company is using the event to get developers to focus on cloud computing.

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