...for us presenters are ZoomIT from the Sys Internals Team at Microsoft.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897434.aspx

It's free, available for download and the little gadget every presenter need.

It has three features:

1. Gives you the possibility to zoom in on the screen to show important areas during demos.
2. Gives you the possibility to draw on the screen to mark out important areas during demos.
3. Gives you a break timer, helping the attendees to see when you start again.

When ZoomIt is running you just use the Ctrl-key plus the above number-key to activate chosen feature. In zoom-mode you can move and freeze the zoomed area with your mouse. In draw-mode you can draw free lines, blocks and arrows, with key-combos, on the screen.

I want to start out a series on what SQL Azure is, benefits and pitfalls, On premises vs Cloud data and so on. There are a bunch of cool benefits with putting the data in the cloud if your application resides there, SQL Azure delivers a high scalable, high performance and highly secure method of working with data for cloud services. Of course we still need our on premises, sql boxes, bare metal or virtual. But for online services the cloud delivers the technologies for us. And now also a highly competent SQL service.

SQL Azure got commercially available on the 17th of november well aligned with the Pre-Developer Conference in Los Angeles. Unfortunally I wasn't there drue to TechEd in Berlin and business. But I had alot of friends attending and speaking there, as with online content, so I guess in time I'll get all the goods from the event. Maybe next year...

SQL Azure is available in two editions, Web (1GB) and Business(10GB). To get you started you need to know how to create the database.

So here it is: (Snip out from books online) 

Syntax

CREATE DATABASE database_name           [(MAXSIZE = [1 | 10] GB )][;]

 Arguments

database_name

The name of the new database.

MAXSIZE

Specifies the maximum size of the database. In this release, SQL Azure provides two database sizes for users: 1 GB or 10 GB. If the MAXSIZE is not set, a default value of 1 GB is used.

This syntax diagram demonstrates the supported arguments in Microsoft SQL Azure Database.

SQL Azure does not support the following arguments and options when using the CREATE DATABASE statement:

• Parameters related to the physical placement of file, such as <filespec> and <filegroup>
  
• COLLATE on a user database
  
• External access options, such as DB_CHAINING and TRUSTWORTHY
  
• Attaching a database
  
• Service broker options, such as ENABLE_BROKER, NEW_BROKER, and ERROR_BROKER_CONVERSATIONS
  
• Database snapshot
   

Remarks

Databases in SQL Azure have several default settings that are set when the database is created.
CREATE DATABASE statement must be the only statement in a SQL batch.

Read more on SQL Azure, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee336279.aspx.