From DBA to Financial Analyst

Another Steve Jones' interesting editorial from SQL Server Central (http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/71018/) about the "risk" of a DBA turning into a Financial Analyst due to Microsoft's cloud computing SQL Azure pricing model (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/pricing/#sql). As we are charged for used space, each simple DBA task like creating an index or even add a column to an index has an impact on costs.

He outlines the "The Real Cost of Indexes" post by Wayne Walter Berry from the SQL Azure Team Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlazure/archive/2010/08/19/10051969.aspx).

Wayne presents us ways to evaluate indexes cost/performance in a SQL Azure environment. Nice way to warn us to change the way of thinking when dealing with cloud databases. Keep it in mind.