SQL Azure Federations-Product Evaluation Program

  • Article

As most of  you know the maximum size of a SQL Azure database is currently set at 50 GB.  This is primarily to allow us to recreate a problematic database instance from one of the other two replicas that we maintain under the covers for fault-tolerance. 

Although this limit might be relaxed in the future the scale-put philosophy of the Windows Azure Platform favors partitioning  database data into multiple databases using a technique known as Sharding.  In order to support this technique we are working on releasing a new SQL Azure feature: SQL Azure Federations.

image

If you’d like to get early access to this feature for building scalable database tiers on SQL Azure, here is the way to nominate yourselves. This is a public nomination process. Nominations do not require a Non-Disclosure agreement (NDA). However if you qualify for the program, we will require an NDA to be signed. Feel free to nominate yourself.