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A comment on Why Is Microsoft Competing With Backend as a Service Startups?.

Re:Why Is Microsoft Competing With Backend as a Service Star... by CurtHagenlocher on Thursday September 06, 2012 @12:42PM (#4484988)
'It is worth noting that Azure provides a "dynamic schema" feature for the backing relational database.'

There are two different Azure table-like stores: SQL Azure, which is indeed a relational database, and Azure Tables, which are not. It's only the latter whose schema is dynamic in the sense the author means.

(Although I'm a Microsoft employee, I know nothing about the "Baas" product.)

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Re:Why Is Microsoft Competing With Backend as a Service Star... by jbigelow76 on Thursday September 06, 2012 @01:44PM (#4485284)
The link to Scott Guthrie's blog announcement implies SQL Server only, both the diagram and the text say SQL Database and relational, implying no Azure Tables. I thought the absence of Azure Table storage offering was odd myself. Maybe the communication just wasn't clear?
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