Microsoft Azure Storage vs. Azure SQL Database

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I saw that there was a similar question asked several months back, but it really didn\'t address my situation well. Here it goes...

I\'m in the process of building from

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Another thing to consider is the number of transactions that you will be sending/receiving from the store. The nice part about SQL Azure is that it is a fixed cost / month and if you are doing the queries within the same data center (i.e. from a Windows Azure Web role located in the same data center as your SQL Azure database) then there are no extra charges.

Even though the cost of the transactions to the Windows Azure stores are pretty low, it is something that has the potential of adding up if you do enough of them.