SQL Data Services. Your Database in the Cloud

SQL Data Services

• First version of SQL Data Services will support: tables, indexes, views, stored procedures, triggers, constraints, table variables, session temp tables etc.
• It will not support: distributed transactions or queries, CLR, Service Broker, Spatial, physical server or catalog DDL and views
• Business Intelligence services, will be available sometimes in the future
• limitations on database size, most likely it will be around 10 GB

http://www.azurejournal.com/2009/05/sql-data-services-your-database-in-the-cloud/
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