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Professional Azure SQL Managed Database Administration

You're reading from   Professional Azure SQL Managed Database Administration Efficiently manage and modernize data in the cloud using Azure SQL

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801076524
Length 724 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Ahmad Osama Ahmad Osama
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Shashikant Shakya Shashikant Shakya
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Preface 1. Introduction to Azure SQL managed databases 2. Service tiers FREE CHAPTER 3. Migration 4. Backups 5. Restoration 6. Security 7. Scalability 8. Elastic and instance pools 9. High availability and disaster recovery 10. Monitoring and tuning 11. Database features 12. App modernization Index

1. Introduction to Azure SQL managed databases

There are very few relational database systems as established and widely used as Microsoft's SQL Server. SQL Server on Microsoft Azure comes in three different flavors (commonly known as the Azure SQL family): SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines (VM) (infrastructure as a service, or IaaS), Azure SQL Database (platform as a service, or PaaS), and Azure SQL Managed Instance (PaaS).

Each of these products has specific use cases, which makes it easy for us to move to Azure SQL whether we're starting up with a new application or migrating an existing workload to Azure.

The IaaS offering, SQL Server on Azure VM, is similar to an on-premises service where Microsoft manages the hardware, virtualization, and infrastructure, and database administrators (DBAs) manage every aspect of SQL Server.

The PaaS offerings, Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance, allow DBAs to focus more on monitoring, capacity planning...

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