Before starting the post let me clarify that what I am going to describe as the state of readiness of the Google Cloud SQL Server is actual for early February 2022. It is quite possible that some things can be different when you read the post.
For the last several months I was helping some big enterprises to adopt Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and, as part of the implementation, a significant number of SQL Server databases were moving to the GCP Cloud SQL service. But when we started to build the environment in GCP it was clear that the SQL Server option for Cloud SQL is much inferior not only to some other cloud offerings and on-prem installations but also to other databases engines on the same Cloud SQL. In short the SQL Server on GCP Cloud SQL service lacked some essential features. Here I will try to explain why I think the SQL Server in GCP is not mature enough for enterprise.
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