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Azure SQL Database

Overview

What is Azure SQL Database?

Azure SQL Database is Microsoft's relational database as a service (DBaaS).

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Popular Features

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  • Database scalability (27)
    10.0
    100%
  • Automated backups (27)
    9.9
    99%
  • Database security provisions (27)
    9.0
    90%
  • Monitoring and metrics (26)
    9.0
    90%
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Pricing

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2 vCORE

$0.5044

Cloud
Per Hour

6 vCORE

$1.5131

Cloud
Per Hour

10 vCORE

$2.52

Cloud
Per Hour

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

How to connect to Azure SQL Database from Azure Data Studio | Data Exposed

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What is Azure SQL Database Hyperscale?

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Features

Database-as-a-Service

Database as a Service (DBaaS) software, sometimes referred to as cloud database software, is the delivery of database services ocer the Internet as a service

9.2
Avg 8.7
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Product Details

What is Azure SQL Database?

Azure SQL Database Integrations

Azure SQL Database Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Azure SQL Database is Microsoft's relational database as a service (DBaaS).

Reviewers rate Database scalability highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of Azure SQL Database are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Muddassar Inayat | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Currently, we are using it for Microsoft PowerApps Business Applications and we prepared all the data models for Azure SQL Database. Its interface is easy to use and within less time we can create databases, add tables and prepare views, and immediately those databases are available for other applications which are already on the cloud.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My organization within the company basically runs an online trading platform and we have several Azure SQL Databases involved in this. If the databases go down or get slow, our organization isn't making money. Availability is a priority and Azure SQL Database handles that very well for us, without the management overhead.
Scott Kennedy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The Azure SQL Database solution we use is currently focused on supporting marketing analytics functions. Eventually, the database will support the entire business intelligence ecosystem. We are finding that a lot of new software companies are popping up that are able to deliver data straight into the blob storage container within the Azure ecosystem. This helps our engineer avoid writing custom python code against and API. It's a nice time saver!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Azure SQL Database service, two of our critical workloads are used for online structure serving our customers. Since we work both physically and online, the cloud infrastructure equivalent of the entire on-premise structure managed for physical retailing is Azure SQL Database service. On the online side, the important thing for us was to have a structure that we can stretch very quickly, and this service provides exactly that.
Niloofar Keshvari Nia | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The Azure SQL Database service offers premium performance and durability, powered by AI. It takes advantage of server less computing and hyperscale storage resources that free you from infrastructure management task.‌ It solves the concern of space constraints and records with cloud flexibility. Speed, security along with other useful and practical features have made it one of the best options. Azure SQL Database server-less used by the executive projects development department and many of the company's clients in the financial and civil sector.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
For the last year the company I work for is migrating to the cloud. This is a mega operation, and migration to SQL Database is just one of many things we're doing. SQL Database is used mainly for medium sized applications. Large applications use Oracle, while small applications would not benefit at all from SQL Database because it's rather expensive. What SQL Database is particularly good at is security and integration with other tools within Azure.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have an online application that is used by most employees, this online application depends on several SQL Databases for storing and accessing information, we needed a [cloud-based] DBaaS service to host the databases of the solution and provide a cost-effective way of scaling up and down based on our application usage since after hours the utilization is incredibly low, Azure SQL did the job quite nicely with the auto-scale capability and helped reduce the costs and optimize the performance.
Rishabh Khanna | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Currently, my organization is working on moving to cloud. we are trying to convert our products to SaaS products, so that we can provide them as a service on various clouds. Microsoft Azure SQL Database is one of many services that we are using in our organization. It is a primary tool for storing data up in the cloud. I am working on IoT based ERP system and I am using Azure SQL database to store data in the cloud. It is very easy to setup SQL server on Azure.
Ä°hsan Akkarpuz | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The product itself used across the company as each department needs some space to share and manage the data extracted out of manufacturing, suppliers, dealers and so on. Azure SQL Database fundamentally enables all employees to have an array of administrative features for acquiring and inventing big data. As part of Ford Motor company, it was inevitable for us to install such software with very high confidence thanks to its secure background.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As a startup in company in the data science space, Azure SQL Database was initially selected for development and proof of concept as a cost effective option for our organization. So it immediately addressed a massive need working under budget constraints. We now use it as our primary tool for data warehousing and data analysis.
Arthur Zubarev | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Azure SQL Database was used internally solely for any new development or when extra capacity on an ad-hoc basis was necessary. Azure SQL Database was used across several departments.
SQL Server, as a mature and well known product that is around for so long makes Azure SQL Database a natural successor to it, which delivers on the same promises.
Users will find their familiar tools working seamlessly, any existing application would sustain likely a minor tweak or a mere configuration change to begin its Cloud journey. A migration off an on-premises SQL Server of almost effortless even from outdated versions.
Of course, with the Cloud the scalability becomes second nature and the server layer becomes transparent.
There are many options available how a client can securely access the data and the integration with Active Directory is supported.
The CAPEX to OPEX brings with it predictable spending, flexibility.
On the technology side, even though there are a couple of inconsistencies with the traditional SQL Server a business would find numerous benefits in Azure SQL Database as the ability to leverage the vast Microsoft Azure ecosystem and tools, reduced patching and version upgrades.
Overall, in my view, the Azure SQL Database is poised to constantly receive significant enhancements as Microsoft remains committed to growing its feature set.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Azure SQL DB throughout our entire business since we migrated to the cloud 4 years ago. It is the backbone of our CRM, Call Center and BI platforms, and feeds out Data Management initiative. On our CRM we use three instances, two for primary/failover and one for disaster recover and external queries running 10 seconds behind. Call Center links to that and BI runs 2 instances, one for sales/marketing data the other for manufacturing data. We have been quite satisfied with the control over the access and security of the data and the subscriptions themselves.
Jacob Biguvu | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
CarMax is a car largest used-car retailer and a fortune company. I am Cloud Engineer/DBA in a team of DBA group. The company is largely using the SQL Server database as a back-end for most applications. The company decided to migrate their on-premises databases unto the cloud. They chose the Azure SQL database for all SQL databases. The main reason for the migration are the factors such as cost saving, scalability and performance, security, business continuity, and disaster recovery. On top of this, migration is very quick and simple from on-premises unto Azure, because Azure provided migration tools natively.
Michael Jipping | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Azure SQL Database was being utilized at first for development as a low-cost option for development and then was later explored as an option for running production workloads. SQL Database Servers have a relatively high fixed cost and this allowed for a great option at a reduced impact to the budget.
Duncan Hernandez | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Azure SQL is a cloud database, which our company has been lacking for a very long time. It has resolved our problem of being able to scale upwards, without having to request new servers or more memory in our current hardware. Currently, Azure is only being used by our developers and business intelligence team.
Erik Ralston | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Azure SQL Database provides an easily managed PaaS-based persistence layer for all our web apps, including internal business systems and the products we sell to our customers. It provides a scalable, globally distributed database engine for our development team without a large admin overhead.
August 10, 2018

Intro to Azure SQL DB

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Azure SQL Database as the data store for our public website. It allows us to meet our uptime goals and provides a point of contact with our customers regardless of the state of our internal network.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Azure SQL DB is a great service. It optimizes licensing cost and lets you pay per usage. You can grow as needed and it supports from small to large databases. Be aware it can require some networking/security steps to have it in large or more controlled environments.
Rick Hahn | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is used in firm-wide operations via RDP to enter data into a proprietary vertical market legal database. It resolves the problem of a law firm that is in several cities across the US.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Mainly used for customer/product management. Azure has been a huge help in the process improvement realm. I've used this to enhance and speed up numerous processes. My experience with databases spans a decade and I've used a few different types of services available on the market. Azure was typically a 'go to' tool in most aspects. I advise companies to use this tool the majority of the time.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We had acquired a new casino and the move for them to be on our domain was TBD. We did, however, need data from some of their systems. Since they did not go through a full security evaluation yet, we were not willing to allow access to their end. As a solution, we implemented Azure SQL Database so we could push the data to the cloud, to then access it on our end. We would have the data without having to directly access their end from our domain.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Azure database is currently used by a specific department at my organization and we mainly focus on auditing and monitoring so it pretty much serves our purpose and most importantly it is easily secured with firewall and DNS resolutions. Migrating databases is no more a hectic task from shifting a large scale database to a more managed engine.
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