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Why Your Azure SQL DB Hyperscale Bill is Higher Than You’d Expect

Last Updated March 23, 2025
Brent Ozar
Azure SQL DB, Hyperscale
3 Comments
tl;dr: if you use Azure SQL DB Hyperscale’s auto-scaling, it’s probably not cutting your bill down because like SQL Server, Hyperscale doesn’t automatically relinquish memory, and it’ll be up to you to manually manage your own memory if you wanna cut your bill. Now for the long story. Microsoft’s Azure SQL DB Hyperscale has an…
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How fast can a $5,436/mo Azure SQL DB Hyperscale load data?

Last Updated February 12, 2019
Brent Ozar
Hyperscale
16 Comments
A client asked, “How quickly could we spin up a full copy of our database in the new Azure SQL DB Hyperscale?” Their database size wasn’t too far off from the 340GB Stack Overflow database, so I decided to migrate that to Hyperscale to see how the experience went. Hyperscale is Microsoft’s intriguing competitor to Amazon Aurora. Hyperscale…
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