Database Reference
In-Depth Information
Figure 9-3.
Windows Azure service configuration page
As mentioned in Chapter 1, creating an affinity group is very important for two reasons:
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Price
. When a Windows Azure service connects to a SQL Azure database
located in the same region, there are no additional charges when transferring
data between the service and the database.
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Failover
. If something happens and either the Windows Azure service or the
SQL Azure database must failover to another region, all the services in the
