I have already looked at this forum topic, but it doesn't look like what I want to do for my site.

I want to create a site that posts lottery data (daily lottery results and stats), updated daily. The lottery results would be gathered externally by some service. I need to put this data in a database and then the site pages would need to be dynamically updated as the database is updated, or have some service to keep checking the database for the latest results.

I haven't been able to find any information on how Umbraco can communicate with another database. Even if I were to edit the Umbraco DB with the new tables, how could I have site pages access the specifc data?

Also, would hosting this on Windows Azure make it easier to make this setup work?

Thanks