Microsoft to accelerate relational capabilities for the clou

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Microsoft will expose the network protocol from its SQL Server database as the service protocol in SDS, the cloud-based version of the database, thus enabling customers to use a full relational model in the cloud.

The company is accelerating delivery of relational capabilities in SDS through use of TDS. "With this evolution, SDS will become the first relational database service in the market to provide customers with the ability to use existing investments in T-SQL development and use a full relational data model in the cloud," Microsoft said in the blog.