Introduction to Microsoft SQL Server Data Services

Introduction to Microsoft SQL Server Data Services
What is Microsoft SQL Server Data Services?
SQL Server Data Service (SSDS) is a highly scalable and cost-effective on-demand data storage and query processing web service. It is built on robust SQL Server technologies and helps guarantee a business-ready service level agreement covering high availability, performance and security features. Microsoft SSDS is accessible using standards based protocols (SOAP, REST) for quick provisioning of on-demand data-driven & mashup applications.

How does Microsoft SSDS differ from a traditional on-premise relational SQL Server database?
SSDS is built on SQL Server database technologies, used for running mission-critical applications in the enterprise as well as on the Web. Since SQL Server is a broad data platform that can handle all data from birth to archival, there are many capabilities that our data platform provides. SSDS is exposing a subset of those capabilities and extending them as services in the cloud in ways that make it easy for customers and partners to consume and build upon over the Internet. Although SSDS in its first iteration exposes only a small subset of what is in the full SQL Server data platform, Microsoft expects this to increase over time, with likely features including binary large object columns, full text search, and richer data types.

What can I do with SQL Server Data Services? Customers can use SQL Server Data Services to store virtually any amount of data in the Cloud. They can query and modify data as required by the specific business scenarios. SQL Server Data Services support standards-based REST and SOAP interfaces designed to work with any Internet-development toolkit. The primary wire format is XML. Developers and service providers can quickly run on-demand applications with ease. The data has flexible schema which can be modified dynamically by the application. The data is provided with high availability and reliability virtually anywhere, anytime

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