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How do I back up On Premise Microsoft SQL Server 2008 to Azure cloud

I have a 50 GB hosted SQL Server database at SoftLayer. I want to do backups to cloud storage, as the SoftLayer managed SQL Server backups are ridiculously priced. Eventually we will totally move ...
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What privileges does the SQL Azure Migration Wizard need to copy a SQL Azure database?

Currently have 2 users in our SQL Azure subscription. One is the god login created when setting up the server, other is very limited account for our www app (has db_datareader and db_datawriter). The ...
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How do I copy my SQL Azure database to a local SQL Server instance?

I have an OLTP database hosted on a SQL Azure instance. I want to pull a copy of the database down from the cloud so I can run some heavy extracts and OLAP-style queries against it without impacting ...