Introduction to Windows Azure SQL Database
Windows Azure is an open cloud platform that enables developers and IT Pros to quickly build, deploy and manage applications across a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters.
Windows Azure offers an easy-to-use management portal and robust command-line tools to manage applications from any platform.

In this Hands-On Lab, you will learn how to:

• Use SQL Database as a cloud hosted database platform for your application
• Provision a new SQL Database server and create new databases
• Create new SQL Database users and grant them appropriate permissions
• Use SQL Database to execute statements to create tables and indexes and to insert query rows
• Build a simple date driven ASP.NET page using the graphical controls in Visual Studio
• Connect to SQL Database via Client Libraries