Microsoft Azure SQL is a robust, fully managed database platform designed for high-performance querying, relational data storage, and analytics. For a typical web application with a backend, it is a good choice when we want to consider a managed database that can scale both vertically and horizontally.

An application software generates user metrics on a daily basis, which can be used for reports or analytics. Azure SQL is a great choice to consider for storing and querying this data under certain conditions: