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eBook Details:

  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Apress; 2nd edition (December 10, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1430243953
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430243953

eBook Description:

Pro SQL Database for Windows Azure: SQL Server in the Cloud, 2nd Edition

Pro SQL Database for Windows Azure: SQL Server in the Cloud, 2nd Edition shows how to create enterprise-level database deployments without the usual investment in datacenter and other infrastructure. Take advantage instead of Microsoft’s worldwide backbone for cloud computing that delivers all the power of SQL Server in the form of the cloud-based SQL Database for Windows Azure. You can create and deploy a database in mere minutes that is accessible worldwide and takes advantage of SQL Database’s high-availability features to protect your data while ensuring 99.9% uptime.

Pro SQL Database for Windows Azure: SQL Server in the Cloud, 2nd Edition covers the very latest in Microsoft’s fast-moving, cloud platform, showing how to program and administer it in a variety of cloud computing scenarios. You’ll learn to program SQL Azure from ASP.NET, from WinForms, and from SQL Reporting Services. You’ll learn to manage the platform by planning for scalability, troubleshooting performance issues, and implementing strong security. You’ll learn the unique aspects of SQL Azure such as sharding and federation support that combine to place SQL Azure a step above and ahead of the competiton.

Pro SQL Database for Windows Azure: SQL Server in the Cloud, 2nd Edition introduces you to Microsoft’s cloud-based delivery of its enterprise-caliber, SQL Server database management system showing you how to program and administer it in a variety of cloud computing scenarios. Download eBook Free »

Windows Azure Platform, 2nd Edition

eBook Details:

  • Paperback: 602 pages
  • Publisher: Apress; 2nd edition (December 7, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1430235632
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430235637

eBook Description:

Windows Azure Platform, 2nd Edition

The Windows Azure Platform has rapidly established itself as one of the most sophisticated cloud computing platforms available. With Microsoft working to continually update their product and keep it at the cutting edge, the future looks bright if you have the skills to harness it. In particular, new features such as remote desktop access, dynamic content caching and secure content delivery using SSL make the latest version of Azure a more powerful solution than ever before.

It’s widely agreed that cloud computing has produced a paradigm shift in traditional architectural concepts by providing new ways to both store and process data. The basic concepts of the cloud are now well understood throughout the industry. Pro Windows Azure Platform, Second Edition is a down-to-earth, code-centric book that shows precisely how the all the components of Windows Azure are employed, and demonstrates the techniques and best practices you’ll need to put them to work.

What is much less well understood, and the primary focus of this book, is how the the Windows Azure technology can be applied in real-world scenarios and made to work for you. This book answers those questions, demonstrating how all the features of Windows Azure both old and new can be put to work. Download eBook Free »