Channel 9 Forums - Coffeehouse - SQL Azure ... 50GB limit? http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 Forums - Coffeehouse - SQL Azure ... 50GB limit? http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums en Thu, 23 May 2013 05:10:01 GMT Thu, 23 May 2013 05:10:01 GMT Rev9 4 -4 -1 Coffeehouse - SQL Azure ... 50GB limit? Hi All,

 

Yep, it's been awhile since I was on here. Other stuff going on in my life has been taking priority but it's all going to settle down now and I have a bit more time to concentrate on the tech matters of the day .... so did you miss me? Wink

 

Anyhoo, I have a multi TB database monster that is looking for a home. So one of the great things about the Cloud is that you don't have to host stuff yourself you effectively rent it fom someone else so you don't have to come up with the mega-money to  build a farm that will handle this kind of monster. So why oh why is there a 50GB limit on SQL databases? ... this is sooooo small!

 

So please, please, please Microsoft can we up the limit on SQL Azure so I can give my monsters a new home!

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How was Oz as I'm sure that was the last time I recall you lurking around '9

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I bet they can do it just that as was posted a lot of stuff on azure probably is way less than 50 megs.

I know how you may feel i have a db that will have to have old data moved to a second server soon, it's 100 Gigs and growing...

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figuerres said:

have you tried to get them on the phone ?

I bet they can do it just that as was posted a lot of stuff on azure probably is way less than 50 megs.

I know how you may feel i have a db that will have to have old data moved to a second server soon, it's 100 Gigs and growing...

They can't do this. The cap is setup because of the way they handle replicating the data for you. Of course, there are other companies and hosting services that could let you put this data up *in the cloud*, but Azure maintains at least three copies of your data and handles a variety of automatic replication and backup services; and to do that they cap the size of the database to ensure they can provide the appropriate level of service to all their customers.

 

Database sharding/partioning is one way to take a multi-TB database and push it across many 50GB database instances...

 

Question though, what is in this database that is taking up so much space? If it is just regular records then sharding/partioning is probably the route you want to go, but if you are storing FILESTREAM or blob data you could look at pushing that data into other storage systems (blob storage for example).

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