SQL Data Services (SDS) - Getting Started

Announcements

• Welcome to SDS -- our on-demand data storage and query processing utility services

  Tony PetrossianMSFTFriday, May 30, 2008 12:32 AM
   

  Welcome to “Getting Started with SQL Data Services” forum.  This is the forum to ask questions and get the help you need to start using the service.  You can also share your experiences in using the service with others in the community that can benefit from your lessons learned.

  
  What is SDS? 
  SQL Data Services (SDS) are highly scalable, on-demand data storage and query processing utility services. Built on robust SQL Server database and Windows Server technologies, these services provide high availability, security and support standards-based web interfaces for easy programming and quick provisioning.
  
  

  Here are some basic resources you can start with:
  

  • SQL Server Data Services Developer Center
  • SDS FAQ has some basic answers you may need
  • SDS Blog for some samples and information
  • SDS Web site for general information
  •  SDS Primer for overview and working samples

   
  Forum guidelines

  ·        When you get a helpful answer from a community member, please vote it as helpful or propose it as the answer. This will help other community members get quick answers to the same question.
  ·        Please be respectful of other community members.
  ·        Start your threads with informative subject lines.
  ·        Use the “Feedback to SSDS team” thread to express your ideas
  ·        Use the “Tips and tricks” thread to post helpful information for other members
  
  Thanks for your participation

   

• Service Recovery Notification - SQL Data Services (SDS)

  Shiloh Cleofe - MSFT Friday, May 15, 2009 3:52 AM

   

   Service Recovery Notification - SQL Data Services (SDS)
  
  

  SQL Data Services (SDS) Affected
  Status: Complete

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  The SQL Data Services has been restored and is fully functional. 

  We were able to isolate the problem, to a DNS issue that was preventing our some users from connecting to the SDS service.  The issue has been resolved and the service is back online

  If you experience any connectivity issues please clear your cache:

  From command line run:

  Ipconfig/flushdns

  Nbtstat -RR

  We thank you for your patience and once again apologize for any inconvenience it may have caused you.

   

  Shiloh Cleofe

  SDS Service Delivery Team

• SDS accelerates its plans to offer relational capabilities

  Mohan VanmaneMSFTTuesday, March 10, 2009 7:06 PM
   

  Thank you all for your support for SQL Data Services (SDS), a key component of Microsoft's cloud computing Azure Services Platform. It has been almost a year since we first publicly introduced SDS to developers and partners. During the past year we have received a wealth of incredible feedback from many of you, for which we are grateful.

   

  Based on customer feedback, today SDS announced its plans to accelerate the delivery of relational database capabilities through SQL Server’s existing network protocol, Tabular Data Stream (TDS) and existing query language Transact-SQL (T-SQL). This will provide customers direct access to the familiar relational model, T-SQL programming language and the existing development and management tools, while continuing to deliver on our key value props of fault tolerance, high availability, friction free provisioning and pay as you grow scaling.

   

  There has been quite a bit of buzz about SDS over the past couple weeks and it is great to be able to share the details more broadly. For more information see,

   

  SDS team blog 

  Data Platform insider blog 

  MSDN Library

  SDS product site 

   

   

  Thank you

  SDS Team