Recently a great series of 15 introductory videos have been completed and made available up on Microsoft Showcase, all focusing on SQL Azure.
Here are the episodes:
- Getting Started: SQL Azure at a Glance
- Getting Started: Basic Architectural Considerations with SQL Azure
- Getting Started: Creating an Account and Your SQL Azure Database
- Getting Started: Interacting with SQL Azure
- Getting Started: SQL Azure Pricing Explained
- Administration: Securing SQL Azure
- Migration & Synchronization: Migrating from Access to SQL Azure
- Migration & Synchronization: Migration of an On-Premises DB to SQL Azure
- Migration and Synchronization: SQL Azure Data Sync
- Programming: Working with SQL Azure using .NET
- Programming: Creating LOB Applications with SQL Azure with Visual Studio LightSwitch
- Programming: Extending SQL Azure to Microsoft Applications (Windows Phone)
- Programming: Extending SQL Azure Data to Mobile and Heterogeneous Platforms (Android)
- BI: Business Intelligence with Cloud Data
- BI: Advanced Business Intelligence with Cloud Data
Code samples are all also publically available on http://sqlazure.codeplex.com.
A Huge thanks to Kevin Remde for his most excellent blog posts about SQL Azure!
In case you do not follow Kevin’s blog (you should) you may want to checkout his 30 part Series on Cloud. It ROCKS! I especially like Part 2-The Cloud Ate My Job! If you are a SQL Azure fan (presumably you are if you got to the end of this very long post you will probably like one of the many SQL Azure Posts from his 30 part Series on Cloud.