Microsoft Azure SQL Database users find its security verification, backup features, ease of use, and integration capabilities highly valuable. Its scalability, performance, and stability are often highlighted along with the platform's ability to provide high availability and cost savings. The seamless integration with other Microsoft services, user-friendly interface, and extensive documentation are consistently praised, as well as the quick data replication and simplified management without infrastructure concerns. Scalability, flexibility in licensing, and automation of configurations also stand out.
- "My main use case for SQL Azure is for a self-reading application related to portfolio management. In this application, users can have portfolios designed and managed based on recommendations from their brokers. These recommendations are sent to users, and if consumed, they get executed and added to their portfolios, which can be easily maintained through mobile applications. This involves using Kafka for messaging and execution."
- "Since SQL Azure is a stable solution, you do not need to spend time to maintain it."
- "The initial setup is straightforward."
Microsoft Azure SQL Database requires better function optimization and enhanced performance. Improved documentation, more training, and better support are necessary. It needs greater flexibility, cheaper pricing, more accessible configuration options, enhanced security, and better integration with existing applications. Compatibility issues, limitations with cross-database queries, scalability challenges, and complex customization options are problematic. Users face difficulties with price transparency, stability, and user interface. Enhanced machine learning features, better automation, and more robust integration with third-party tools would be beneficial.
- "If there are areas for improvement, one aspect could be the user interface. It could be made more user-friendly and similar to Google BigQuery's interface."
- "The solution’s pricing needs improvement because it is too high."
- "Operational cost needs improvement."