Federation Metadata in SQL Azure – Part 1– Federations and Federation Members
One of the great value propositions of federations is the ability to represent all the data distribution on the server side for both your schema (for example which parts of your schema you want to scale out and using what keys etc) and your runtime layout (for example whether you need 30 or 300 federation members at any one time to handle your workload). The annotations you put in to express your design and runtime decisions are represented in a number of system views. In part 1, we will take a look at the basic views that represent federations itself and members.
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Federation Metadata in SQL Azure – Part 1– Federations and Federation Members
