Jim Dettman
jimdettman at verizon.net
Fri Mar 16 15:16:02 CDT 2012
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