SQL Server Data Services - SSDS
SQL Server Data Services - SSDS
Well
I guess this means that soon enough we'll all have to know some new initials... Microsoft
has announced in MIX08 about SQL Server Data Services (SSDS). SSDS
is a new, web-based, on-demand data storage and query processing utility
services. SQL Server Data Services is built on SQL Server database and
Windows Server technologies and Microsoft promises scalability and security in
this new service. Just so as to promise
they're keeping up on all ends, SSDS also enables the use of LINQ -
based query language and also full - text search.
SQL Server Data Services also supports
a flexible data model with no schemas required. An entity is the smallest unit
of consistency. It can be independently serialized, updated, etc. The data
types supported for the properties of the entities are: string, binary, boolean,
number, and date-time.
SQL
Server Data Services has no limit on the amount of data that you can store
for it. Data will be partitioned in order to scale to unlimited size.
Right
now, the beta version of SSDS is only available for the participants of
MIX08, but if just like me, you'd like to hear about it when it becomes public,
then sign up for SQL Server Data
Services even now. You'll be able to see all the projects that Microsoft Connect has to
offer.