What are the drawbacks of putting my staging and production dbs into one Azure Elastic Pool?












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I have a STAGING and PROD environment, web apps, SQL databases, etc in Azure. Currently, the scale of the SQL db for PROD is much higher than STAGING - no surprises there.



I suppose there is some temptation to save money by pooling these SQL resources together with an SQL Elastic Pool. However I'm concerned that it will create a coupling between STAGING and PROD which everything inside me screams is a bad idea.



What are the legitimate drawbacks that could reasonably affect performance, reliability, security, etc?










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    I have a STAGING and PROD environment, web apps, SQL databases, etc in Azure. Currently, the scale of the SQL db for PROD is much higher than STAGING - no surprises there.



    I suppose there is some temptation to save money by pooling these SQL resources together with an SQL Elastic Pool. However I'm concerned that it will create a coupling between STAGING and PROD which everything inside me screams is a bad idea.



    What are the legitimate drawbacks that could reasonably affect performance, reliability, security, etc?










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      I have a STAGING and PROD environment, web apps, SQL databases, etc in Azure. Currently, the scale of the SQL db for PROD is much higher than STAGING - no surprises there.



      I suppose there is some temptation to save money by pooling these SQL resources together with an SQL Elastic Pool. However I'm concerned that it will create a coupling between STAGING and PROD which everything inside me screams is a bad idea.



      What are the legitimate drawbacks that could reasonably affect performance, reliability, security, etc?










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      I have a STAGING and PROD environment, web apps, SQL databases, etc in Azure. Currently, the scale of the SQL db for PROD is much higher than STAGING - no surprises there.



      I suppose there is some temptation to save money by pooling these SQL resources together with an SQL Elastic Pool. However I'm concerned that it will create a coupling between STAGING and PROD which everything inside me screams is a bad idea.



      What are the legitimate drawbacks that could reasonably affect performance, reliability, security, etc?







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          The biggest push back for sharing Stage and Prod I get come from the Cyber side of the house. If you must demonstrate a clear line of delineation between Stage and Prod, you should not use an elastic pool for both. Other than that, there are not any real technical downsides, you can always mix and match single DBs with a pool. In most cases, an elastic pool is more cost effective but please note the following per our documentation.




          There is no per-database charge for elastic pools. You are billed for
          each hour a pool exists at the highest eDTU or vCores, regardless of
          usage or whether the pool was active for less than an hour.







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            The biggest push back for sharing Stage and Prod I get come from the Cyber side of the house. If you must demonstrate a clear line of delineation between Stage and Prod, you should not use an elastic pool for both. Other than that, there are not any real technical downsides, you can always mix and match single DBs with a pool. In most cases, an elastic pool is more cost effective but please note the following per our documentation.




            There is no per-database charge for elastic pools. You are billed for
            each hour a pool exists at the highest eDTU or vCores, regardless of
            usage or whether the pool was active for less than an hour.







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              The biggest push back for sharing Stage and Prod I get come from the Cyber side of the house. If you must demonstrate a clear line of delineation between Stage and Prod, you should not use an elastic pool for both. Other than that, there are not any real technical downsides, you can always mix and match single DBs with a pool. In most cases, an elastic pool is more cost effective but please note the following per our documentation.




              There is no per-database charge for elastic pools. You are billed for
              each hour a pool exists at the highest eDTU or vCores, regardless of
              usage or whether the pool was active for less than an hour.







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                The biggest push back for sharing Stage and Prod I get come from the Cyber side of the house. If you must demonstrate a clear line of delineation between Stage and Prod, you should not use an elastic pool for both. Other than that, there are not any real technical downsides, you can always mix and match single DBs with a pool. In most cases, an elastic pool is more cost effective but please note the following per our documentation.




                There is no per-database charge for elastic pools. You are billed for
                each hour a pool exists at the highest eDTU or vCores, regardless of
                usage or whether the pool was active for less than an hour.







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                The biggest push back for sharing Stage and Prod I get come from the Cyber side of the house. If you must demonstrate a clear line of delineation between Stage and Prod, you should not use an elastic pool for both. Other than that, there are not any real technical downsides, you can always mix and match single DBs with a pool. In most cases, an elastic pool is more cost effective but please note the following per our documentation.




                There is no per-database charge for elastic pools. You are billed for
                each hour a pool exists at the highest eDTU or vCores, regardless of
                usage or whether the pool was active for less than an hour.








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