Distributed/Heterogeneous Query Processing in Microsoft SQL Server. - José A. Blakeley; Conor Cunningham; Nigel Ellis; Balaji Rathakrishnan; Ming-Chuan Wu (ICDE, 2005)

Extreme scale with full SQL language support in microsoft SQL Azure. - David G. Campbell; Gopal Kakivaya; Nigel Ellis (SIGMOD Conference, 2010)

Adapting microsoft SQL server for cloud computing. - Philip A. Bernstein; Istvan Cseri; Nishant Dani; Nigel Ellis; Ajay Kalhan; Gopal Kakivaya; David B. Lomet; Ramesh Manne; Lev Novik; Tomas Talius (ICDE, 2011)

SQL Azure as a Self-Managing Database Service: Lessons Learned and Challenges Ahead. - Kunal Mukerjee; Tomas Talius; Ajay Kalhan; Nigel Ellis; Conor Cunningham (IEEE Data Eng. Bull., 2011)

Microsoft azure SQL database telemetry. - Willis Lang; Frank Bertsch; David J. DeWitt; Nigel Ellis (SoCC, 2015)