I have had an Azure account for about 3 months. We are using 3 small DB's.  This last month, the billing jumped considerably as all of a sudden we are being charged 375/month for a SQL server instead of just the per DB charge. 

My developer may have done something to create this situation, but what can we do to roll it back?

what does your subscription show? are you using SQL Database or a SQL Server VM?

The subscription billing shows hours for SQL Server Standard, but there is no server available in the portal for me to delete or manage.

I'm using 3 small 2008 server VMs that I can manage in the portal.

Please contact support team by creating a support ticket at http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/support/contact/

Or if that doesn't work because you don't have an active subscription you will need to contact general customer support to have them create a support ticket for you. http://support.microsoft.com/gp/customer-service-phone-numbers?wa=wsignin1.0

are you sure none of the 3 VMs you have is actually a SQL Server VM?

are you sure none of the 3 VMs you have is actually a SQL Server VM?

Yes.  The SQL Server VM the DB's are using is not in my Portal control panel and I can't find a way to manage or configure it.

[edit] I'm new to this.  I just created a test subscription and see that when you create a DB, you must create a SQL server for it, but nowhere in pricing, which refers to 5 or 10 dollars/month per small DB, does it mention you will be forced to use a 375/month server. 

• Edited by Charles Rotter Tuesday, December 03, 2013 10:15 PM

can you not have a look at your applications connection strings to figure out where they're connecting? that will point where the database is, whether it's in a VM or not.

if your bill shows it's a server, then it's most likely a VM.

Windows Azure SQL Database charges are per database, not per server.

• Proposed as answer by Fanny LiuMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator Wednesday, December 04, 2013 6:08 AM

I believe I may have tracked it down.  My smallest VM which was only used as a DNS redirector, may have been created from a SQL server image.  Thank you for your help. I'll come back if this is not the problem.

• Marked as answer by Fanny LiuMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator Wednesday, December 18, 2013 9:39 AM

Yup, that was the problem.