Discounts on Azure resources such as dedicated hosts or SQL vCores in return for committing to a one- or three-year term.
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Terms in this definition
- Dedicated
Running Azure Functions on an App Service plan, which removes the execution time limit and offers VNet integration on Basic and higher tiers.
- Serverless
Compute tier for single Azure SQL databases that scales automatically, pauses when idle and charges by the second. It is offered in General Purpose and Hyperscale, not Business Critical, and reserved capacity does not apply.
- RETURN
Comes after the VAR definitions in DAX and holds the expression whose value the formula gives back. While debugging, pointing it at one variable for a while is a useful trick.