Running in MS Azure.... not expensive at all.

Check out Azure pricing. Ridiculously cheap compared to many in-house IT depts.

250GB database costs anything between $15 and $75 per month.

500GB database is...

The downsides of auto increment columns are well discussed and documented.

I have tables with > 5,000,000 records with Guids as primary keys. These tables contain static data so clustered index...

NEWSEQUENTIALID() is just a poor band-aid around a problem that needs to be addressed in a different way.

Depends a bit (a lot, I guess) on your environment, but if you're...

I never respond to these articles, but I am tired of "analysis with clear bias" BS.

A lot of what you say is just not true and the rest is clearly...