19th Aug 2009

SQL Azure Invitation Codes

Updated March 2010: In February of 2010 the Windows Azure Platform reached commercial availability. The benefit of this is the platform is ready for production use. One of the downsides is that you can’t get invitation codes for free. There are some offers available for getting started with Windows Azure, SQL Azure and AppFabric. You can check these out here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/offers/.

Now that CTP1 is out the door a question that keeps coming up is…  “I registered for a token a couple months ago…  When am I going to get an email with my Invitation Code?”  We are glad that people are as excited about the SQL Azure release as we are so we love this question!

Over the next week or two everyone who has already signed up for a SQL Azure Invitation Code should be receiving an email sent to the address associated with your Live ID containing the token and a link to redeem it.  We understand that everyone would like their tokens yesterday but we need to work through the list and ramp up the service.

Once the list of current requests has been processed, new requested will be fulfilled within a day or two.

We are working on integrating the SQL Azure and Windows Azure provisioning experience.  We realize that it is very inconvenient to have to have to make requests for two different tokens from different places. 

What about customers who already have an account on the previous version of SQL Data Services/SQL Server Data Services which had an ACE model with a REST API?  When will they get tokens?  We will be providing all of those users with a token, but in the meantime I’d recommend that all of those users sign up for the CTP.

If you haven’t already done so, please sign up for the CTP today!
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=149681&clcid=0×09

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30 Responses to “SQL Azure Invitation Codes”

  1. August 19th, 2009 at 6:59 am Roger Jennings Says:

    Customers “who already have an account on the previous version of SQL Data Services/SQL Server Data Services” (like me) can’t sign up. They get the same screen as those who have registered for a token recently.

    Where are we in the queue?

    –rj

  2. August 19th, 2009 at 7:34 am Zach Skyles Owens Says:

    @rj, I thought I saw this behavior a couple days ago working with someone else… Let me get back to you on this.

  3. August 19th, 2009 at 2:40 pm Jamie Thomson Says:

    Zach,
    PLEASE don’t be one of these ultra annoying people that only puts a snippet of their blog posts into their RSS feed. Most of the time I won’t bother clicking thru – that’s why we have RSS readers, so we don’t HAVE to click.

    -Jamie

  4. August 19th, 2009 at 3:17 pm Zach Skyles Owens Says:

    Jamie,

    Are you pointing your RSS reader at
    http://english.zachskylesowens.net/feed/
    ?

    That should the be the full post… I moved my blog from MSDN back to my original blog’s domain so that may be where you are getting the partial feed from. I could stop posting anything over there but I figured I’d at least redirect people who may have a feed from my “old” MSDN blog.

    PLEASE let me know if this straightens things out for you.

    Thanks,
    Zach

  5. August 19th, 2009 at 10:26 pm Jamie Thomson Says:

    cheers Zach. Sorted now :)

  6. August 19th, 2009 at 11:00 pm Zach Skyles Owens Says:

    @rj, I believe your Invitation Code is on it’s way… Please let me know if you haven’t received it by end of day tomorrow.

  7. August 20th, 2009 at 1:20 am Arman K Says:

    Hi I have same problem as Roger J, is there any way to fix it?
    Thanks
    Arman

  8. August 20th, 2009 at 2:40 am SQL Azure Invitation Codes – Coming soon! Says:

    [...] Azure Invitation Codes – Coming soon! Now that SQL Azure CTP is released, Microsoft announced that “over the next week or two everyone who has already signed up for a SQL Azure Invitation [...]

  9. August 20th, 2009 at 7:02 am Zach Skyles Owens Says:

    @Arman, we are working on getting this issue resolved… I’ll see what I can do!

  10. August 21st, 2009 at 1:21 am Sam Says:

    when i follow your links to subscribe for SQL Azure, i got “An object that you requested, or that was needed to process your request could not be found. ”
    what should I do?

  11. August 22nd, 2009 at 12:58 am Reuben Says:

    Hey Zack,

    I pre registered on the 11-Aug. I know you guys must be flat out but all I see is the data I entered on the form – Do I just now need to wait?

    Thanks

  12. September 1st, 2009 at 7:29 pm SQL Azure Migration Wizard · Wade Wegner Says:

    [...] Try SQL Azure Database CTP Today & SQL Azure Invitation Codes [...]

  13. September 5th, 2009 at 4:45 pm Rob Mackenzie Says:

    Hi Zack,

    I received my invitation code, plugged in the initial information it asked for, and it set up two (identical) projects named SDS-only CTP Project. After that, no action is available. Any ideas would be much appreciated.

    Cheers,
    Rob

  14. September 5th, 2009 at 4:47 pm Rob Mackenzie Says:

    Doh! Zach’s with an ‘h’ not a ‘k’…Reuben, you threw me off ;)

  15. September 8th, 2009 at 2:01 pm Zach Skyles Owens Says:

    @Rob, I’m just getting back from a long weekend. Did you get this resolved yet?

  16. September 8th, 2009 at 2:01 pm Zach Skyles Owens Says:

    @Rob, No worries man!

  17. September 9th, 2009 at 7:31 am Arman K Says:

    Hi again and sorry for bothering you, but I have not yet received any invitation code for Sql Azure S.

    When I browse to my MS Connect page I see just old two Sql Azure registrations (from march and may.

    Thanks
    Arman

  18. September 9th, 2009 at 7:57 am Zach Skyles Owens Says:

    @Arman, I’ll send you an email to follow-up offline on this as you should have received your invitation code already.

  19. September 9th, 2009 at 12:07 pm Rob Mackenzie Says:

    Hi Zach,

    I actually haven’t had any resolution to this yet.

  20. September 9th, 2009 at 12:57 pm Zach Skyles Owens Says:

    @Rob, I just sent you an email to follow-up offline.

  21. September 17th, 2009 at 7:34 pm Andrew Robinson Says:

    Signed up for a sql token on 9/9 and haven’t seen it? Any help would be great. Thanks,

  22. September 17th, 2009 at 7:35 pm Andrew Robinson Says:

    ooops. I just found it…. sorry

  23. October 4th, 2009 at 12:01 pm TeeSan Says:

    We signed up for an Azure account and get to the screen that says “New! Windows Azure invitation codes are now available instantaneously. Just click “Product Keys” on the left to acquire your invitation code.” But, there is no Product Keys on the left to click….

  24. October 5th, 2009 at 11:29 am piao Says:

    registered about 2 months ago, still did not get invitation token for SQL Azure, Why? can someone help?

  25. October 21st, 2009 at 6:02 pm Alex Says:

    I’m in the same situation as Arman. I just have the two registration questionaires and that’s it. I’ve never received an email with an invitation code.

  26. December 9th, 2009 at 7:09 am Taras Bachynskyy Says:

    Hi, I siigned up for sql invitation code today. I haven’t received code yet. How can I see what is the current state?

  27. December 10th, 2009 at 7:07 am Gareth J Says:

    This still seems to be a problem .. I got my sql azure invitation on Nov 27th – still no sign of an invitation code for azure net services – are they still linked?

    Thanks!

  28. December 16th, 2009 at 7:18 am Tazul Says:

    I signed up for the SQL Azure but haven’t received my invitation code.

  29. March 18th, 2010 at 2:39 am Pavithra Says:

    i want CTP Invitation code for SQL Azure

  30. March 26th, 2010 at 8:56 am Zach Skyles Owens Says:

    In February of 2010 the Windows Azure Platform reached commercial availability. The benefit of this is the platform is ready for production use. One of the downsides is that you can’t get invitation codes for free. There are some offers available for getting started with Windows Azure, SQL Azure and AppFabric. You can check these out here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/offers/