What is Microsoft SQL Services?
Microsoft SQL Services delivers on Microsoft’s Data Platform vision of extending the SQL Server capabilities in cloud as web-based services. It enables you to store data from structured, semi-structured, and unstructured documents. SQL Services will deliver a rich set of integrated services for relational database, search, reporting, and analytics and data synchronization with mobile users, remote offices and business partners. The first of these SQL Services announced at PDC 2008 as technology preview was database service called SQL Data Services. Other services will be available in future. http://www.microsoft.com/sql/dataservices/default.