Data Management: SQL Data Sync

How can we improve Windows Azure Data Management: SQL Data Sync?

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  1. Provide monitoring API’s

    Provide a REST API to allow synchronization status to be monitored programmatically. For example, current status of all Sync Groups to determine if syncs are succeeding or failing for any reason.

    109 votes
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      planned  ·  1 comment  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    • Provide API’s to configure, manage and initiate sync

      Allow on-premises or cloud-based applications to configure sync groups and initiate syncs.

      99 votes
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        planned  ·  3 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
      • Automatic propagation of schema changes to one database to all databases in a sync group

        In addition to allowing Sync Group configuration to be updated to cater for schema changes, automatically propagate the schema changes to all databases in a Sync Group.

        76 votes
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        • Support files and Windows Azure Blobs

          Add synchronization capabilities for the Windows Azure Blob Service. Allow data to be synchronized between storage accounts and allow on-premises file data to be synchronized with the Blob Service.

          70 votes
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          • Support syncing federated tables.

            When voting for this feature we would appreciate it if you enter a comment with the specific support you require; e.g. sync on-premises SQL Server with a federated database; sync between federated databases; sync reference data between partitions; etc.

            40 votes
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              planned  ·  CalvinCalvin responded

              This is in plan for SQL Datasync in the fall

            • Support for tables for which primary key is different than Clustered index

              In a lot of situations the Clustered index differs from the primary key in a table. At this moment, Data Sync supports only tables for which the clustered index is the primary key. It would be nice if this restriction is not needed. This will make live much easier to sync data between on-premise and SQL Azure db. We can't change current datamodel in our application. Current datamodel is made based on performance.

              36 votes
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              • 28 votes
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                • Support Windows Azure Tables

                  Add synchronization capabilities for the Windows Azure Table Service. Allow data to be synchronized between storage accounts and allow on-premises data to be synchronized with the Table Service (from which on-premises stores?).

                  28 votes
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                  • don't touch/modify my schemas

                    I don't want the data sync or anything else for that matter to "touch" any of my databases.

                    25 votes
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                    • Support compression

                      Most of the data being passed as datasets is highly compressible. We have created methods to compress/decompress the data when batched, but it would be nice to support this option out of the box to minimize the amount of data being sent over the wire.

                      24 votes
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                      • Mail notification

                        support team should get mail notification on failure with required action to be taken to resolve it

                        21 votes
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                        • Add support for circular foreign key dependencies

                          Curently if the database contains circular foreign key dependencies the Azure Data Sync will not deploy the sync group reporting the error:
                          Cannot deploy the sync group because there is a circular foreign key dependency

                          18 votes
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                          • 18 votes
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                            • Support for different on-premises databases

                              On-premises SQL Server databases can currently be included in a Sync Group. Would you like support for other databases; if so, which ones?

                              18 votes
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                              • Filtering support for master and detail tables

                                Allow master and detail relationship to be specified so a filter and the filter value only needs to be present on the master table.

                                17 votes
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                                • Off line Sync feature

                                  Feature to sync between two database, once they are connected to net or by moving some files to other machine and sync with othere database

                                  16 votes
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                                  • Set up sync without altering on-premise database

                                    Instead, the sync information could be held in a separate database on the same server. This would be great for syncing system critical databases like the SCCM database.

                                    14 votes
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                                    • Enable SQL Azure Data Sync Agent to support / connect to multiple Subscriptions

                                      Currently the SQL Azure Data Sync Agent can only connect to one subscription so if you are supporting multiple clients your local server can't participate in multiple sync topologies. The abilty to connect to multiple subscriptions would enable all my client databases to be synced to one management server.

                                      12 votes
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                                      • _Tracking Tables

                                        No need to create a _Tracking table in case the Database is read only. This will improve the performance of Data Sync.

                                        9 votes
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                                        • Scheduled DB backup to BLOB

                                          Set and forget DB back up to a BLOB in a different Geo location.

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