Note: I'll be focusing on Azure Cloud and SQL Server, but these considerations are valid for any Cloud/DB Vendor. Whenever people talk about “The Cloud” I often hear: “cloud is expensive” and, sooner or later, “if performance aren’t good we can scale up in minutes later” .The mindset of taking care of performance issue by scaling up/down cloud resources...
PROTIP: Performance Tuning on the cloud will save you money by the hour
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