Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Fri Mar 16 23:17:50 CDT 2012
Reading down through the comments are a real eye-opener, to say the least. Someone please remind me why anyone would use the Cloud, just yet, until the BE management of Cloud's feature (I am using this concept liberally) have been stream lined. Being the first on the block to implement some new technology is not always the best way to go as some clients have no sense of humour when it comes to their business. >From my perspective, if you really need, data access from anywhere, do not have your own servers or fast internet connection, just rent someone's fast web server, with appropriate data server like MySQL of MS SQL and build your system there. The technology may not be quite as leading edge (bleeding edge) but your humorless clients will thank you, by actually paying you. ...And, PS no one has to know you are not using the cloud. The only difference is that an astute client may wonder why the application is so fast reliable. ;-) Jim -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Dettman Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 1:16 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] Windows Azure MS SQL DB hosting costs calculation - anybody? Shamil, <<They (MS) seems to be now providing Windows Azure free trial (http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/offers/ms-azr-0018p), was that available before?>> Yes, it has. <<I suppose my sample/probable real life project case Windows Azure MS SQL DB hosting costs calculations would be interesting to many developers from this list ?>> Before you go too far down the path, you might want to check out the following thread: http://rdsrc.us/NlPrvS Which is a link to a thread on EE where one of the Expert's tried out Azure and Access and his trials and tribulations. It's fundamentally different then what your looking to do (he was looking to work over a 3G cellular network), but some of what he discovered will still apply. Think it's worth a few minutes to read through. Jim. -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Salakhetdinov Shamil Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 03:14 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: [AccessD] Windows Azure MS SQL DB hosting costs calculation - anybody? Hi All -- They (MS) seems to be now providing Windows Azure free trial (http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/offers/ms-azr-0018p), was that available before? Anyway I have a prospect customer who wanted to have their DB "on a cloud". That DB is not big in size - less than 1GB, and it should have <= 10,000 (ten thousands) updates (inserts/updates/deletes) per month, and 30-50 millions reads. By update and read I mean one DB record CRUD or retrieve operation from several DB tables. This is a look-up DB with two large tables having about half million rows and one much smaller table. There could be other tables added later. I wonder how to calculate what would be the monthly costs of keeping such a DB with such operations as described above "on a Windows Azure cloud"? Yes, I can read Windows Azure docs and I can try to use their calculators to calculate my customer monthly spending on keeping their look-up db on Windows Azure cloud but if anybody of you here have already got experience in calculating such spending I'd like to get "ballpark quote" ASAP, and if that figure will be affordable then I'd start three months free Windows Azure trial... I suppose my sample/probable real life project case Windows Azure MS SQL DB hosting costs calculations would be interesting to many developers from this list ? TIA, -- Shamil -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com