Folks, after an hour of suffering weird errors I managed to create my first Azure database and a small console app to copy rows from a local table into the Azure one. I got a bit of a fright when it took about 5 minutes to insert the 1177 rows into the Azure table. Luckily however, it only takes about 2 seconds to read them all back with a DatAdapter.Fill and show the resulting DataTable in a WinForms grid.
I'm quite surprised by the wildly different timings for inserts vs reads. Has anyone experienced this? Is anyone using Azure DBs in anger and has anything startling to report? Gotchas? It's great to be able to have "roaming" databases with such ease just by tweaking the connection strings. It creates lots of convenient alternatives for the way disconnected apps can be designed. Greg
