What Happens When I reach the allocated level (1 GB or 10 GB) in SQL Azure?

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Many times I am asked “When I reach the allocated level (1 GB or 10 GB) in SQL Azure, what happens?”
The answer: only SELECTs and DELETEs will be supported. UPDATEs and INSERTs will throw an error.
Any workaround? yes.
Because of above size constraints, one of the recommendations is to partition the data across databases. Creating [...]