I’m constantly amazed at the rate at which blockers for adoption for Azure SQL Database are being removed. With the advent of V12 servers we got the same core services as on premise. Since then we’ve got full text, encryption, row level security, transparent data encryption and more. Last week Torsten Grabs blogged about the next big thing which not only enables cross database queries but some other great elastic scale features. You can read about the details here ttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-us...(read more)

http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/simons/archive/2015/10/18/another-one-bites-the-dust-cross-database-queries-now-possible-in-sql-azure.aspx