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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63 votes
Sync Group configuration can be updated to cater for database schema changes
Allow Sync Group configuration to be updated when there have been schema changes, such as a new table or new column added, without re-creating the Sync Group.
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43 votes
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.
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26 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.
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24 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.
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22 votes
Provide API’s to configure, manage and initiate sync
Allow on-premises or cloud-based applications to configure sync groups and initiate syncs.
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16 votes
Spatial data support
Allow spatial data type columns to be synchronized.
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15 votes
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?).
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13 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
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11 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?
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10 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… more
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9 votes
Mail notification
support team should get mail notification on failure with required action to be taken to resolve it
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9 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.
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6 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.
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4 votes
Allow taking a database offline to prevent charges to my account.
it would be nice if Windows/SQL Azure subscriptions would support "deactivating" a service or database, respectively. I would like to be able to store these things (perhaps in my Azure storage account, or in my Windows Live SkyDrive) with the ability to bring them back online at a later date.… more
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3 votes
_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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3 votes
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.
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2 votes
Let me configure that deletes are not synced
For some scenarios data is collected and updated in one database and needs to be transferred to another database, one way. I want the ability to delete data from the source database after a certain time period and it has been synced, without those deletes being synced. Allows me to… more
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2 votes
Allow bulk insert when first populates data to target database
It took over 10 hours to move 6GB of data to target database on the first synchronization. When I used SQLAzureMW, it took less than hour.
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2 votes
Provide more meaningful error message
To be helpful on problem investigation.
