SQL Azure server as unit of billing
- by vtortola
Hi,
One of the azure training kit presentation says:
Each account has zero or more logical
servers
Provisioned via a common portal
Establishes a billing instrument
Each logical server has one or more
databases
Contains metadata about database & usage
Unit of authentication, geo-location, billing, reporting
Generated DNS-based name
Each database has standard SQL objects
Users, Tables, Views, Indices, etc
Unit of consistency
So now I'm lost :D. Were not the databases themselves the units of billing?
I mean, I thought that servers were just like logical containers and you were charged per number and size of databases. How servers are billed?
Thanks.