Great news for SQL Azure subscribers! Microsoft announced last Tuesday significant changes to the pricing structure, resulting in 48% to 75% savings for databases larger than 1GB. Also, the 100MB database option enables customers to get started using this cloud-base relational DB engine at half of the previous price. More information after the jump…
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