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  1. 1,846 votes

    Support full-text indexing

    Our application is heavily dependent on it. So this is a blocker right now.

    Status: planned

    thanks, we hear you loud and clear. Free text search is planned for SQL Azure. Right now I can't give you a date.

    Guy Haycock Guy Haycock Senior Product Planner
  2. 1,446 votes

    Enable backups

    We need the ability to do backups. Just simple, standard backup files that we could create and download at the very least. It doesn't have to go directly blob storage or all these other suggestions. But we really, really need backups to use SQL Azure for production. Not data sync,… more

    Status: planned

    For information about what's coming from SQL Azure, go to about 38:00 in this presentation from TechEd. http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011/DBI313

  3. 757 votes

    Make SQL-Azure 100% T-SQL compatible

    I script I maintain/exported from an on-premise site should just run on the cloud.

    It doesn't matter if it implements some tokens as a No-OP or with warnings or notes. But it should compile unaltered and run on Azure.

  4. 497 votes

    developer version

    Provide a feature complete free version of SQL Azure for developers beyond Jan 2010

  5. 471 votes

    Include Analysis Services in SQL Azure

    Status: planned

    Thanks, we hear you loud and clear. We are working to bring Analysis Services to SQL Azure. Right now I can't give you a date.

    Guy Haycock Guy Haycock Senior Product Planner
  6. 436 votes

    Enable Transparent Data Encryption

    Enabling TDE would go a long way to help placate business sponsors concerned about their data being housed in Microsoft's datacenters. Even though the cloud is arguably more secure than doing it yourself, turning on TDE would provide a warm fuzzy feeling to those not comfortable with the concept.

    Status: planned

    We have several improvements around encryption, including data at rest and during use. Today I don't have a timeframe that I can share.

    Guy Haycock Guy Haycock Senior Product Planner
  7. 427 votes

    Cross database reference

    The ability to query (read-only) data from a difference database or linked server. This will allow to reference (join) some tables from the source database and build views that uses two or more SQL Azure databases.

  8. 381 votes

    Reporting Services

    Status: started

    Please see http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/SQLAzure/reporting.aspx for information on SQL Azure Reporting.

  9. 362 votes

    Support database sharding

    [idea moved from Windows Azure Feature Voting]

  10. 308 votes

    create a new pricing model

    Charge very little for basic database (say $2/DB), and then charge me for storage size (say $0.50/GB/month) and usage (say $1.00/1M logical IOPs) - so I can start off small, and pay for usage.

    Status: under review

    We are always thinking about new business models. We've nothing specific to share today, but stay tuned.

    Guy Haycock Guy Haycock Senior Product Planner
  11. 305 votes
  12. 274 votes
  13. 269 votes

    Full Management Studio Support

    Currently you can only run queries against SQL Azure databases. It would be good to get the rest of management studio working (object explorer etc.)

  14. 254 votes

    OData Support

    1. Create a new Database.
    2. Check an "Enable OData data services"
    3. Get a non-code OData service over the database

    Status: started

    We have an early look at this feature on our incubation site at https://www.sqlazurelabs.com . Please provide us feedback on this feature by emailing sqlazurelabs@microsoft.com

  15. 186 votes

    Add support for ASP.NET sessions in SQL Azure

    Please add support for ASP.NET sessions in SQL Azure. Although the membership and roles providers currently work with SQL Azure, the session provider does not. If we have more than 1 instance of our web roles we are forced to use the custom ASP.NET session provider that uses Azure Storage… more

  16. 161 votes

    Enable SQL Service Broker in SQL Azure

    Service Broker should be available in Windows Azure.

  17. 133 votes

    Add SQL Server Agent or its ability to create custom jobs

    Ability to create jobs that can run from 1 minute, 1 hour etc.

    BTW Love SQL Azure keep up the good work guys!

  18. 119 votes

    XMLNAMESPACES alternative in sql azure

    Hi,

    We are planning to shift our enterprise application to windows azure platform...

    but we have critical issue where we are using XMLNAMESPACES in attribute level ... since sql azure is not supporting this syntax what can be the best alternative or will it be supported in future sql azure… more

  19. 104 votes

    Implement FILESTREAM for blobs into Azure Blob Store

    Storing blobs in the database is fairly pointless when you have a dedicated blob store. Implement the FILESTREAM protocol to store blobs in a user's azure storage

  20. 97 votes

    Support Sql Change Tracking

    Add in Sql 2008 Change Tracking

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