TechEd 2011: The Data and BI Platform for Today and Tomorrow
[This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.]
Quentin Clark, Vice President for SQL Server, delivered a session after the TechEd keynote yesterday about the future of SQL Server for data and BI and moving towards the cloud in the upcoming “Denali” release.
There was a great demo by Roger Doherty that illustrates how well SQL Azure and SQL Server work together by making it much easier to move back and forth between on-premises and cloud utilizing improvements in the DAC Framework.
Additionally, new developer tools in “Denali”, specifically SQL Server Developer Tools Codename “Juneau”, provided a central point for developers to create database applications. Database edition and cloud-aware – “Juneau” provides the one tool for any SQL Server or SQL Azure development.
I encourage you to watch it in its entirety. However, if you want to skip ahead the SQL Azure demo starts at the 23:00 mark
-Steve