This walkthrough provides an overview of some basic architectural considerations that you can use to establish best practices and optimize your SQL Azure databases. Specifically, the video discusses standard database optimization techniques, database sharding, and table considerations. The demo portion of the video shows how to create a clustered index in the Windows Azure portal and shows how to test for latency using SQL Server Management Studio. The conclusion points you to some additional resources to help you get started using SQL Azure.
Pre-requisites
Pre-requisites
- A pre-existing SQL Azure account
- Basic knowledge of Transact SQL
- SQL Server Management Studio
- Link to Walkthrough by Steve Yi