

The estimated monthly cost displayed on the Choose a size window does not include SQL Server licensing costs. For production workloads, see the recommended machine sizes and configuration in Performance best practices for SQL Server in Azure Virtual Machines. If this is for testing purposes, be sure to clean up your resources once you're done with them to prevent any unexpected charges. This is one of the minimum recommended VM sizes for SQL Server on Azure VMs. Select See all sizes for the Size of the virtual machine and search for the E4ds_v5 offering.
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Select the Image drop-down and then type 2019 in the SQL Server image search box. Select + Create to open the Select SQL deployment option page. You can select the star next to Azure SQL to save it as a favorite to pin it to the left-hand navigation. If Azure SQL is not in the list, select All services, then type Azure SQL in the search box. Select Azure SQL in the left-hand menu of the Azure portal. For more information on these options, see Pricing guidance for SQL Server Azure VMs. You can also bring-your-own-license (BYOL) and pay only for the VM. Also, SQL Express is free for lightweight workloads (less than 1 GB of memory, less than 10 GB of storage). However, SQL Server Developer edition is free for development and testing, not production. Licensing costs for SQL Server are incorporated into the per-second pricing of the VM you create and varies by edition and cores. For a description of available images, see the SQL Server Windows Virtual Machines overview. However, you are free to choose any of the images to use in this walkthrough. You pay only for the cost of running the VM. The Developer edition is used in this article because it is a full-featured, free edition of SQL Server for development testing. Use the Azure Marketplace to choose one of several pre-configured images from the virtual machine gallery. For a quick guide, see the SQL Server VM quickstart instead. This article provides a detailed description of the available configuration options when deploying your SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) by using the Azure portal.
