back to article Microsoft improves Azure SQL Server cloud service, simultaneously makes it worse

Microsoft has announced improvements to its Azure SQL Database service, which offers a managed SQL Server database with patching and operating system maintenance handled automatically by the cloud service. At the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) summit currently under way in Seattle, Microsoft Data Platform VP T. …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Internal competition

    This is a problem with these huge companies - internal competition restricting the growth of new operations as the legacy divisions try to hold onto their margin. The reason IBM did not dominate the PC world that it created was partly because the minicomputer divisions forced the PC division to release machines which already had outdated or crippled specs, while the likes of Compaq and Dell were pushing the envelope.

  2. Simon Jones [MSDL]

    Azure pricing for SSRS

    Azure pricing for SSRS was always ridiculously high.

    Insisting on having a VM to run SSRS is another complication.

    Running SQL Server in a VM is not as scalable as SQL Azure was meant to be or as it was first sold to the public. It looks like Microsoft are struggling to deliver the vision they originally promised.

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