Crazy Ballmer's Database Hut is having the fire sale of the century! SQL Azure pricing is sliced in half or more. We must be crazy, they say! Check out these discounts: When SQL Azure first came out with its absurd limitations (no backups, tiny database sizes), I viewed the pricing the same way I view…
On Monday 2/1, SQL Azure goes commercially live. Microsoft's charging for service now, and that means it's officially official.
I talk to a lot of enterprise DBAs, project managers, and developers about SQL Server in the cloud. Here's some of the questions I get asked most often.
What is SQL Azure?
SQL Azure is Microsoft's solution for SQL Server in the cloud. It has a few key differences from traditional SQL Server:
Erika's friends call her "Fancy Feast" because she only likes the best things in life. She's got champagne tastes, but we can't afford to buy the best of everything. I recently picked up a coffee table from Ikea, and it got me thinking about SQL Azure. In a perfect world, I'd have on-premise SQL Server for every database. I'd use cutting-edge storage and cluster everything. But this isn't a perfect world...
Microsoft's pricing for SQL Server in the cloud, SQL Azure, has been announced. It's free for now, but around November it'll be:
$9.99 per month for 0-1GB
$99.99 per month up to 10GB
