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Professional Azure SQL Database Administration

You're reading from   Professional Azure SQL Database Administration Equip yourself with the skills to manage and maintain data in the cloud

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789802542
Length 562 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Ahmad Osama Ahmad Osama
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About the Book 1. Microsoft Azure SQL Database Primer FREE CHAPTER 2. Migrating a SQL Server Database to an Azure SQL Database 3. Backing Up an Azure SQL Database 4. Restoring an Azure SQL Database 5. Securing an Azure SQL Database 6. Scaling out an Azure SQL Database 7. Azure SQL Database Elastic Pools 8. High Availability and Disaster Recovery 9. Monitoring and Tuning Azure SQL Database 10. Database Features

Introduction

There are very few relational database systems as established and widely used as Microsoft's SQL Server. Azure SQL Database, released on February 1, 2010, is a cloud database service that is based on Microsoft's SQL Server.

It is compatible with most SQL Server features and is optimized for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications.

As organizations are adopting cloud computing and moving their applications into the cloud, Azure SQL Database offers everything that Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) can offer. Azure SQL Database is a DBaaS option for any organization with applications built on SQL Server Database.

Azure SQL Database uses familiar Transact-SQL programming and a user interface that is well known and is also easy to adopt. It is therefore important for SQL Server Database administrators and developers to learn how to use Azure SQL Database.

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Azure SQL Database is also known as SQL Azure or SQL Database instance.

This lesson covers the Azure SQL Database architecture in detail. After familiarizing ourselves with the architecture, we'll learn how to provision Azure SQL Database through activities and explore pricing, settings, and its properties. We'll also identify the key differences between Azure SQL Database and SQL Server – mainly the SQL Server features that are not supported by Azure SQL Database.

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Professional Azure SQL Database Administration - Second Edition
Published in: Jul 2019
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