This excerpt from the upcoming book, SQL Server 2008 Administration in Action, introduces the role of service-level agreements (SLAs) as part of a DBA's overall strategy to maintaining reliable ...

If organizations use zone-redundant databases with the Azure SQL Database service under the Business Critical tier (also known as "Premium"), then they can now be eligible for a 99.995 percent SLA.

Microsoft says geo replication for database is available only in the premium tier of Azure SQL Database, and will be available to customers later this month. Topics Azure , developers , msbuild14 , TC ...