you can register for this course here Free SQL Azure Course at Microsoft Virtual Academy
Microsoft® SQL Azure™ Database is a relational cloud database service (RDBMS) built on SQL Server® technologies. It is a highly available, scalable, multi-tenant database service hosted by Microsoft in the cloud. SQL Azure Database helps to ease provisioning and deployment of multiple databases. Developers do not have to install, setup, patch or manage any software, as all that is taken care of by Microsoft with this platform as a service (PAAS). High availability and fault tolerance is built-in and no physical administration is required.
Customers can use existing knowledge in T-SQL development and a familiar relational data model for symmetry with existing on-premises databases. Additionally, customers can get productive on SQL Azure quickly by using the same development and management tools they use for on-premises databases services.
MODULES :
- Introduction to SQL Azure
This module covers the core information to help you get started with SQL Azure. At the end of this module we will have covered the an introduction to the products, covered it's key features and architecture, plus typical scenarios for it use. This module will also introduce information that will help you choose the right edition and get signed up.
This module consists of some material : Overview of Microsoft SQL Azure ; Getting Started with SQL Azure; SQL Azure Pricing Explained.
- Setup and Configuration of SQL Azure Databases
Through a series of short easy to follow videos by the end of this module covers the steps required to sign up, configure access and logins and start to load a SQL Azure database.
This module consists of some material : Creating An Account and Your First SQL Azure Database; Manage SQL Azure Firewall rules; Interacting With a SQL Azure Database; Managing Logins and Security in SQL Azure; Creating Objects in SQL Azure; Options for Migrating a Database Schema to SQL Azure; Migrating a Database Schema to SQL Azure
- SQL Azure Security
After completing the first two modules in this course you will be in a position of having a working SQL Azure database. The next step is to understand the security features and this module will cover guidelines for securing SQL Azure, the security model used by the product and how to apply security features to Data Sync.
This module consists of some material : Security Guidelines for SQL Azure; Overview of Security in SQL Azure; Microsoft SQL Azure Security Model; SQL Azure Data Sync – Data Security;
- Synchronizing and Migrating On-premise data
A key feature of SQL Azure is the ability to integrate with an on-premise solution. This module looks at the two main activities, synchronising on-premise data with SQL Azure and moving data from an on-premise SQL Server or Access Database to SQL Azure.
This module consists of some material : Introduction to Data Sync; Migrating an On-premesis Database to SQL Azure; Migrating from Microsoft Office Access to SQL Azure.
- Business Intelligence
This final module looks at some of the features being implemented into SQL Azure to enable Business Intelligence. Using two videos this module will cover the features in the Reporting Servers component of SQL Azure and then how to use Integration Services to move data in and out of SQL Azure for cloud or on-premise BI processing. This module consists of some material : Introduction to SQL Azure Reporting Service; Moving Data Into and Out Of SQL Azure using SSIS;
you can register for this course here Free SQL Azure Course at Microsoft Virtual Academy