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Why would you need to pay SQL licensing costs? Couldn't you use their SQL storage platform (or Amazon's, or anybody else's)?
by curiouscat321 13y ago
Why would you need to pay SQL licensing costs? Couldn't you use their SQL storage platform (or Amazon's, or anybody else's)?
- 300bps 13y agoI've used it both ways. Using SQL licensing is much easier for someone already used to that. You can't do much with standard SQL tools (ex: Management Studio) while using an Azure SQL Database. You have to use the web interface. Backing up is different, restoring is different, designing tables is different. Copying databases from a local SQL instance to a SQL Azure is not straight-forward like copying a .bak file and restoring it and there are features in standard SQL that aren't supported in SQL Azure.