19 Apr 2013

Difficult week for Azure SQL Database Service

Posted by iwgcr

On April 13, from 8:02 PM UTC to 10:41 PM UTC the Azure SQL Database in the West US sub-region experiencing intermittent failures with Create\Delete\Alter database operations.

This April 16, from 10:08 PM UTC to April,17 9:30 AM UTC the SQL Azure Windows SQL Database East Asia sub region has suffered a software bug which resulted in delete server operation failures.

No detailed explanation was given by Microsoft on the issues.

Date

Service

Duration

Critical Data Lost

2013-04-13 Windows Azure 3 hours no
2013-04-16 Windows Azure 11,5 hours no