Earlier this month at the Build conference, we announced a number of great new improvements coming to SQL Databases on Azure including: an improved 99.95% SLA, support for databases up to 500GB in size, self-service restore capability, and new Active Geo Replication support.  This 3 minute video shows a segment of my keynote where I walked through the new capabilities: Last week we made these new capabilities available in preview form, and also introduced new SQL Database service tiers that make it easy to take advantage of them. New SQL Database Service Tiers Last week we introduced a new Basic and Standard tier option with SQL Databases – which are additions to the existing Premium tier we previously announced.  Collectively these...(read more)Go to the complete details ...