Working with Azure SQL Database

The front door. It answers two questions and hands everything else on: what is true right now, and which skill owns the task. It holds little content of its own, because the content that would live here is the content that goes stale.

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The first rule: ask, do not recall

A model's picture of this service is a snapshot and the snapshot is old. Availability, defaults, limits and command flags all move, and none of them fail loudly when recalled wrongly. They fail at deployment, in review, or in a bill.