The goal of this sample is to provide database developers with a conceptual understanding of sharding in the context of relational database management systems (RDBMSs) hosted in platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environments. You'll find a step by step guide describing how to use this code here: https://github.com/scoriani/AzureCAT-Data-Elasticity-Patterns/blob/master/Demo%20App/Adventure%20Works%20Data%20Elasticity%20Demo.docx

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