Pros:

- Cloud is distributed; therefore, in theory, robust and redundant.

- Cloud can be inexpensive as archived storage.

Cons:

- Public clouds (e.g., Amazon) are not secure; few financial institutions (banks, brokers) allow...

5. Fully Qualified Names - Always use the fully qualified name when calling stored procedures. This would be the format database_name.schema_name.table_name. For example, use EXEC master.dbo.Your_Proc_name instead of EXEC Your_Proc_name...