Pushing Data to and from the Cloud with SQL Azure Data SyncChristopher Woodruff

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Who am I?Chris WoodruffMVP, Visual C#Telerik, Inc.

cwoodruff@live.comhttp://chriswoodruff.comhttp://deepfriedbytes.comtwitter @cwoodruff

Talk GoalsOverviewUnderstand BenefitsDemoDemo Syncing Data with .NET/C#Scenarios

Microsoft Sync FrameworkMicrosoft Sync Framework is a comprehensive synchronization platform enabling collaboration and offline for applications, services and devices. Developers can build synchronization ecosystems that integrate any application, any data from any store using any protocol over any network.

Overview

Benefit of Azure Data Sync

Complexity without Code

Benefit of Azure Data Sync

Leveraging the Azure Platform

Demo

Demo SQL Azure Data Sync through Azure Management Portal

Demo WorkflowWindows Azure

On-Premise

Chinook Music Store SQL Database SQL Data Sync

Data Sync Agent

Chinook DB

ChinookAdmin

Application

SQL Data Sync Server

Sync Group

Best Practices (Agents)Least privilege accounts with network service accessSeparate machine from on-premises SQL ServerDo not register an on-premises DB with more than one agent

Best Practices (Database)Not all tables in DB need to be in Sync GroupAll Tables in Sync Group need a PKTEST, TEST and TEST before Production

Demo

Demo Syncing Data through Microsoft Sync Framework

What happens when things go very wrong?Conflict between the on-premise database and the SQL Azure database, the ApplyChangeFailed event will be raised.

DbApplyChangeFailedEventArgs object provides information about the error or conflict that caused the failure

What are the differences between SQL Azure Data Sync and Custom Data

Sync with SQL Azure?

Scenarios for SQL AzureData Backup to Cloud

Azure SQL Database

On-PremiseDatabase

Scenarios for SQL AzureMobile Data Syncing

Azure SQL Database

On-PremiseDatabase

Scenarios for SQL AzureCloud Data Syncing

Azure SQL Database

Azure SQL Database

The demo project can be found at:

github.com/cwoodruff/TechEd2013ChinookSync

Track resources

SQL Data Sync @ MSDNhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh456371.aspx

Windows Azure SQL Databasehttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/ee336279.aspx

Windows Azure Developer Guidancehttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/jj673464.aspx

Microsoft Sync Frameworkhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sync/bb736753.aspx

Microsoft Sync Framework 2.1 (SDK)http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=23217

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