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Re:Software Infrastructure 2.0: A Wishlist by mcny on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @06:27AM (#26872846)
> Meanwhile, in the Azure cloud: Practically nothing has a "copy" option. Deploying basic resources such as SQL Virtual Machines or App Service environments can take hours. Snapshotting a VM takes a full copy. Etc...

To add to the list of etc, I can't query across two databases in azure SQL.

Re:Software Infrastructure 2.0: A Wishlist by jiggawatts on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @08:07AM (#26873477)
You can't even copy an Azure SQL Database across subscriptions! This is something that comes up regularly at my day job: there's an Enterprise Agreement production subscription, and an Enterprise Dev/Test subscription for non-production that's much cheaper. This would be great, except for stupid limitations like this.
Re:Software Infrastructure 2.0: A Wishlist by steverb on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @11:03AM (#26875634)
I believe you can now query across DBs in Azure via a Linked Server. It still feels a little clunky to me though.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/li...