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Introduction to Windows Azure SQL Federation - Part 1

Posted: Feb 20, 2013 at 4:04 PM
By: Scott Klein
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This video will introduce Windows Azure SQL Federations. You will learn the terminology and architecture of SQL Federation and the concepts behind database partitioning and scalability in the cloud. To learn more about SQL Databases visit WindowsAzure.com.

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Eric

May 08, 2013 at 8:08 PM

SQL Federation seems like such a hack to me rather than a thought out sharding implementation. for example, one of the primary reasons to use an RDBMS system over a NoSQL system is reporting. If you use Federations you essentially can no longer run reports across your entire data set, at least not through TSQL! I can envision writing something to loop through your federations and aggregating your results but what a disaster! Federation just seems like a terrible idea, unless you never need to run reports across your entire data set, which I can't think of many situations where you wouldn't need to do that?