Elastic pools provide a simple and cost effective solution for running multiple Azure SQL Databases with a fixed budget. The price of an elastic database pool is based only on the total resources allocated for the databases, and is independent of the number of databases it contains.

Azure SQL Databases comes with built-in backup and restore capabilities, but how do you copy an Azure SQL Database between subscriptions? It is actually fast and easy to do. I will describe how to do it in this article.