SQL Azure Decoded (SQL's new name)
If you want to be brutal about it, SQL Azure is just SQL's new name. Think the same three capital letters, only now in a blue-cyan shade. Granted, Windows Azure is a great big new shiny platform as service, which can piggyback on both Microsoft server farms and on premise infrastructure.
You would almost have heard of the other four tenants: Live, .NET, SharePoint, Dynamics CRM. However, as far as SQL is concerned, there's simply very little difference, Azure or no...
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