{"id":21434,"date":"2019-02-22T17:15:36","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T00:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/aspnet\/?p=21434"},"modified":"2019-02-22T17:15:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T00:15:36","slug":"azure-hybrid-benefit-for-sql-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/azure-hybrid-benefit-for-sql-server\/","title":{"rendered":"Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my <a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/aspnet\/migrating-your-existing-on-prem-sql-server-database-to-azure-sql-db\/\">previous blog post<\/a> I talked about how to migrate data from existing on-prem SQL Server instances to Azure SQL Database. If you haven\u2019t heard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sql-server\/sql-server-2008\">SQL Server 2008 end of support is coming this summer<\/a>, so it\u2019s a good time to evaluate moving to an Azure SQL Database.<\/p>\n<p>If you decide to try Azure, chances are you will not be able to immediately move 100% of your on-prem databases and relevant applications in one go. You\u2019ll probably come up with a migration plan that spans weeks, months or even years. During the migration phase you will be spinning up new instances of Azure SQL Database and turning off on-prem SQL Server instances, but for a little bit of time there will be overlap.<\/p>\n<p>To help manage the cost during such transitions we offer the <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/pricing\/hybrid-benefit\/\">Azure Hybrid Benefit<\/a>. You can convert 1 core of SQL Enterprise edition to get up to 4 vCores of Azure SQL Database at a reduced rate. For example, if you have 4 core licenses of SQL Enterprise edition, you can receive up to 16 vCores of Azure SQL Database.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to learn more check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/pricing\/hybrid-benefit\/faq\/\">Azure Hybrid Benefit FAQ<\/a> and don\u2019t forget, if you have any questions around migrating your .NET applications to Azure you can always <a href=\"https:\/\/dotnet.microsoft.com\/apps\/cloud\/migrate-to-azure\">ask for free assistance<\/a>. If you have any questions about this post just leave us a comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my previous blog post I talked about how to migrate data from existing on-prem SQL Server instances to Azure SQL Database. If you haven\u2019t heard SQL Server 2008 end of support is coming this summer, so it\u2019s a good time to evaluate moving to an Azure SQL Database. If you decide to try Azure, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":58792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[197,327],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aspnet","category-azure"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>In my previous blog post I talked about how to migrate data from existing on-prem SQL Server instances to Azure SQL Database. If you haven\u2019t heard SQL Server 2008 end of support is coming this summer, so it\u2019s a good time to evaluate moving to an Azure SQL Database. If you decide to try Azure, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}