You could send SQL and T-SQL commands to it similar to a regular hardware- or VM-based instance of SQL Server. But because it doesn’t need to instantiate the lower-level software the way a VM does, it ...

Test-Drive SQL Server Data Services: Figure 1 Layered Architecture Is Highly Scalable. 06/23/2008; SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) persists flexible Entity sets in specially customized, clustered SQL ...

In addition, customers are able to reduce their OS count by 8 to 15X, reclaim a third of their licenses for future use and see immediate 25% to 60% SQL Server savings.