What does it really mean when we say “Web Edition includes up to 5 GB DB/month” or “Business Edition includes up to 50GB DB/month”?
Customers can provision multiple databases in SQL Azure for one or more applications. The databases can be either Web or Business Edition Databases. •A single Web Edition database can support up to 5 GB. 1GB and 5GB are the billing increments •A single Business Edition database will support up to 50 GB. The business edition uses 10 GB billing increments (10GB, 20 GB, 30 GB, 40 GB, and 50 GB). Customers are billed based on the peak database size in a day rolled up to the next billing increment. Example: Assume we have a web edition database that has a MAXSIZE=5GB. If the database size is 800MB, the daily charge for the database will be at the 1GB rate for web edition. If the next day, the database size grows to 3GBs, the daily charge will be based on the next billing increment for web edition which is 5GB for that day. If the next day, after some data deletion, the size drops back to 900MB, the daily charge will be based on 1GB back again. The same example applies to a business edition
