Ryan Dunn, the Technical Evangelist for Windows Azure, posted a neat trick on how to measure your database size in SQL Azure. Here is the exact queries you can run to do it:
select
sum(reserved_page_count) * 8.0 / 1024
from
sys.dm_db_partition_stats
GO
select
sys.objects.name, sum(reserved_page_count) * 8.0 / 1024
from
sys.dm_db_partition_stats, sys.objects
where
sys.dm_db_partition_stats.object_id = sys.objects.object_id
SQL Azure Database Size Calculator
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