How is SDS different/better than what Microsoft offered customers at PDC 2008?
At PDC 2008 customers were offered a flexible entity-based data model that did not provide schema support and exposed only minimal relational capabilities. After many customers reviews and based on significant customer feedback the SDS capabilities are evolving to provide customers with the ability to utilize a traditional RDBMS data model in a cloud-based environment. Developers will be able to use existing programming interfaces and apply existing investments in development, training, and tools to build their applications along with current advantages of high availability, scale, utility and cost.
