Azure SQL Database Types

I want to do a quick summary post of the many different types of Azure SQL Database available and I am not talking about elastic pools, VMs etc, more so the singleton type.

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Hyperscale Azure SQL Databases

Okay it is not really called Giant Azure SQL Database but its close. There is a new public preview vCore service tier called Hyperscale. The architecture behind this is very different to that of a Standard tier SQL database (as an example).  What drives this concept? Flexible storage architecture where you can scale out the storage as your database grows (up to the 100TB mark).

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Giant Azure SQL Databases

Okay it is not really called Giant Azure SQL Database but its close. There is a new public preview vCore service tier called Hyperscale. The architecture behind this is very different to that of a Standard tier SQL database (as an example).  What drives this concept? Flexible storage architecture where you can scale out the storage as your database grows (up to the 100TB mark).

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