Thank you for the warning.
>Fair warning: no first hand knowledge here ;-)
>
>Azure seems to offer less performance on equal/comparable HW. Also Rick has posted here some of his misgivings ;-)
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>Also take the time to calculate cost - while the idea to get valuable service for free/subsidized forever is ludicrous,
>sometimes the prices reached at moderate work load differ a lot, so more than 1 expected growth path should be calculated
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>>Do you know what they charge, per month?
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>>>Microsoft Azure
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>>>>Hi,
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>>>>I am not sure that this forum is the right one for the following question. But I could not think of another one.
>>>>
>>>>I am looking for a way to have a VM server and install a copy of SQL Express with my database. Such that I can connect to this SQL Server as well as any other person(s) that has the credentials. The database is not very large and therefore SQL Express will be sufficient. But I don't know how to create/set/purchase such a VM. I don't mind paying for this VM on monthly basis (provided it is a reasonable).
>>>>
>>>>Any suggestions? TIA
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