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BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook

By : Steef-Jan Wiggers
Book Image

BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook

By: Steef-Jan Wiggers

Overview of this book

BizTalk enables the integration and managment of automated business processes within or across organizational boundaries. To build a solid BizTalk solution, deploy a robust environment, and keep it running smoothly you sometimes need to broaden your spectrum, explore all possibilities, and choose the best solution for your purpose. By following the recipes in this book you will gain required knowledge and succeed in your implementation. With BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook, you can leverage and hone your skills. More than 50 recipes will guide you in implementing BizTalk solutions, setting up a robust and well performing BizTalk environment, and choosing the right solution for monitoring it. As a developer or administrator you greatly benefit from taking these recipes to work. In this book a developer and administrator will see how to deploy, build, and maintain a BizTalk environment. How to apply patterns for robust orchestrations, messaging and testing. Administrators will learn to set up an environment using Microsoft best practices and tools to deliver a robust, performing and durable BizTalk environment. Besides setting up their environments administrators can also decide through a number of recipes how to monitor and maintain the environment. A developer can contribute to a healthy environment by implementing instrumentation in artefacts, applying well suited pattern(s) and testing the solutions built.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Performing table operations in SQL Azure


AppFabric Connect for Services also offers the possibility of connecting BizTalk with the cloud. It is possible to get connected with SQL Azure and call a stored procedure or perform a table operation. SQL Azure delivers cloud database services which are built on SQL Server technologies and is a component of the Windows Azure platform. Instead of storing or retrieving data from the on-premise SQL Server database, you can do it in the cloud. Benefits of SQL Azure are scalability and high availability because of elasticity to the cloud. With AppFabric Connect for Services, you are able to develop a hybrid BizTalk solution connecting with the cloud and on-premise systems.

Getting ready

Before you can try with use this recipe, you must have an account on Windows Azure and the SQL Azure database. Go to the SQL Azure Portal (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/sqlazure/) to get a SQL Azure database. You must also have Windows Azure AppFabric SDK version...