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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 2. Migrating a SQL Server Database to an Azure SQL Database FREE CHAPTER 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

Summary

Migrating to an Azure SQL database is an important task and should be planned to perfection. This lesson talked about a migration strategy that you should follow when migrating from an on-premises database to an Azure SQL database:

  1. Find the migration benefits.
  2. Find the blockers.
  3. Select a service model.
  4. Select a service tier.
  5. Select the main region and the disaster recovery region.
  6. Select a migration tool.

This lesson also talked about how to choose a service tier and covered different migration tools to migrate the data and the schema from an on-premises SQL Server database to an Azure SQL database. In the next lesson, we will learn how to perform manual and automatic backups that are unique to Azure SQL databases.

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Professional Azure SQL Database Administration - Second Edition
Published in: Jul 2019
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781789802542
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