While I’ve been on the Expedition Denali roadshow, a portion of the event is about SQL Azure, Microsoft’s new cloud database computing platform. I always enjoy watching and surveying the DBAs in the audience during and after the session about how they feel this is going to affect their jobs. Microsoft has been pitching Azure as a fundamental shift in the way we manage and store data, pushing the onus of managing the database, patches and operating systems to Microsoft. Reading between the lines,...

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