As I scrolled down, I saw the "Pricing details by product" section and realized my second mistake. This took me to the "Pricing Overview" page. Out of desperation, I picked "Azure pricing" in the top left of the dropdown. In fact, we can't even get to the pricing page before being bombarded with calculators, how-to's, and have-you-considered's in the top navigation pane Pricing link. Yep, the Microsoft Azure pricing page web application is kind of like that: This is just the top nav pricing dropdown! We didn't even get to a pricing page yet. And when you finally walk out the door, you're not really sure how much money you have any more but you're fairly certain it's less than what you walked in with. There are flashing lights, clinking coins, drinks aplenty, and not a single window to alert you to the fact that it's 3 AM and you've been gambling for 5 straight–wait, what day is it again?–29 straight hours. If you've never walked into a casino, it's hard to describe the sensory overload you are greeted with. So, I headed over to Microsoft's web site to get some simple, straightforward pricing information. But, I also wanted to know what kind of ongoing costs there would be if it ever got beyond dabbling and into production use. I just had some line-0f-business apps I wrote in Access that I wanted to hook up to a web database and play around a bit. I wasn't trying to scale the next web app to millions of users, though. Like childhood me staring up into the fluffy clouds, I got the itch to give SQL Azure a try. Somehow this is the perfect metaphor for SQL Azure pricing. And you can actually walk around inside a cloud! And it's a total letdown. As you get older, you learn that fog is basically clouds on the ground. How amazing it would be to lay back and relax in that fluffy softness. ![]() You look up and you see those big fluffy clouds. Just thinking about it takes me back to being a kid. Even if I jumped out of the plane (which I don't do anymore), I still couldn't touch the cloud. And not just because I'm inside the plane. Somehow it's all around me, and yet I can't touch it. But once I'm inside the cloud, I can't see it. I'm in a plane and I'm flying into the cloud. And in the Caribbean, much of it is even azure. If you've ever tried to dip your toe in the SQL Azure waters, you've probably realized that you've got your metaphors all mixed up. ![]() ![]() This is part 1 in my series on SQL Azure for Access Developers.
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