How does the customer’s application scale beyond the provisioned SQL Azure database size?
SQL Azure supports data sets up to terabytes in size. Currently, individual SQL Azure databases can be up to 50GB in size. Data sets larger than 50 GB can be partitioned across multiple SQL Azure databases using industry standard approachesv. For example, a SaaS ISVs can easily provision each customer their own database or a retailer can partition sales data into databases based on regions.
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- How does the customer’s application scale beyond the provisioned SQL Azure database size?
