Backup is currently a major gap in the SQL Azure product, but with support for Database Copy TSQL command has given at least one option for directly backing up a SQL Azure database by copying a source Azure database to a newly created Azure database.
The TSQL command structure below provides will produce a copy of a database:CREATE DATABASE databasedestinationname
AS COPY OF [sourceservername.]databasesourcename
Note that this TSQL syntax allows for copying to a different Azure server. This...
