SQL Azure Data Sync Feature Voting
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Welcome to the feature voting forum for SQL Azure Data Sync. If there are any features you think should be added to SQL Azure Data Sync then we’d like to hear from you. Please either vote for a feature already in the list or add a new entry. We really value your feedback as it will help us better prioritize updates to the service.
As well as your votes, please use the Comments to enter any further details to clarify your request.
Note that we reset this forum on October 10th 2011 so it can be solely focused on SQL Azure Data Sync features; it previously also contained feedback for Microsoft Sync Framework. We have captured all previous feedback and will be sure to include it in the planning for both products.
For information about SQL Azure Data Sync: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/features/database/
Thanks in advance for your feedback!
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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.
64 votes -
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.
62 votes -
Provide API’s to configure, manage and initiate sync
Allow on-premises or cloud-based applications to configure sync groups and initiate syncs.
52 votes -
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.
40 votes -
Spatial data support
Allow spatial data type columns to be synchronized.
22 votesstarted ·
AdminShirley Wang
(Admin, Microsoft Windows Azure)
responded
Look for this new feature in our upcoming Service Update 5!
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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?).
21 votes -
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.
20 votes -
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 -
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.
16 votes -
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.
16 votes -
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.
16 votes -
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?
15 votes -
Mail notification
support team should get mail notification on failure with required action to be taken to resolve it
13 votes -
12 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.
11 votesplanned ·
AdminCalvin
(Product Planner, Windows Azure, Microsoft Windows Azure)
responded
This is in plan for SQL Datasync in the fall
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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.
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8 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.
7 votes -
Sql azure data sync with SQL Azure Fedration.
There should be way to sync data bewteen sql azure databases with Federation Memeber databases.
6 votes -
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.
6 votes