It’s the cloud, it’s highly available. Do I need to worry about HA and DR?

Short answer: Yes. While yes the cloud is highly available and services that are taking offline due to hardware failures, host server reboots due to patching, etc. can your application survive being down for several minutes in the middle of the day? If the answer to that question is “no”, and the answer to that…

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SQL Azure != SQL Server

This may come as shocking news to some, but Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Azure SQL DB (Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL DB, SQL Azure Database, or whatever name you know it as) are very much not the same thing.  They may look similar and they may act similar, but they are very much not…

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