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Sharding in SQL Azure

The federation (sharding) support in SQL Azure is almost upon us. This was introduced at PDC in October last year http://www.msravs.com/audiosearch_demo/default.aspx?&index=Microsoft_PDC&q=federation&qr=All If you want to read about the federation...
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Webscale is all about sharding and its coming to SQL Azure

There are many that joke about developers always talking about webscale and needing to shard to be able to scale. In reality many systems, if not most, don’t need to be able to scale to numerous nodes because todays processing is so powerful. However...
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