Okay, free for as long as you have an Azure subscription ;)

Still, who doesn’t want a 32gb cloud-based Azure SQL database to play with?

Check out the details here

Of course you can then use something like Azure Data Studio to work with the database - again for free! it even has a free version of Copilot for Azure Data Studio so you can look like a SQL pro! (I did say “look like” ;) )

Hey and what the heck, why not throw a REST or GraphQL API at the database too - for free! using Data API Builder.

I will be showing some of the above in action via a new-fangled device called a “video” - apparently all the kids these days are doing this…

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