SQL Azure Federations and the Entity Framework

Here we are, back from New Year holidays, fresh and eager to present you with the most interesting cloud news. We have an exciting 2012 ahead, so go ahead!

In a recent post we presented the SQL Azure Federations feature, which provides horizontal partitioning for your database tier on SQL Azure.

SQL AzureThe current release of Entity Framework can be used with SQL Azure Federations.Microsoft .NET However there are some issues regarding the creation and use of federated databases. The Windows Azure Customer Advisory Team has wrote some blog posts providing guidance around those issues:

Happy and successful 2012 from The Cloud Pilot team!