In March 2013 I launched an initiative called AdventureWorks on Azure in which I hosted the AdventureWorks2012 sample database on Azure so that the SQL Server community at large could use it to get familiar with what SQL Azure Windows Azure SQL Database had to offer. I asked the SQL community to support the initiative by donating money to keep it ...

Just over 12 months ago I published a blog post entitled AdventureWorks2012 now available for all on SQL Azure. In it I explained that I had set up a Windows Azure SQL Database (then known as SQL Azure database) for the SQL Server community to use and hence familiarise themselves with the SQL Azure offering – I called this initiative ...

Two weeks ago I made available a copy of [AdventureWorks2012] on SQL Azure and published credentials so that anyone from the SQL community could connect up and experience SQL Azure, probably for the first time. One of the (somewhat) popular requests thereafter was to make the venerable Northwind database available too so I am pleased to say that ...