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Learn Microsoft Azure

By : Mohamed Waly
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Learn Microsoft Azure

By: Mohamed Waly

Overview of this book

Azure is one of the leading public cloud service providers. Thanks to a number of Azure service updates, it continues to make advances in the realm of cloud computing. Learn Microsoft Azure starts with the fundamentals of cloud computing. You will learn to configure and set up the Azure infrastructure. As you make your way through the book, you'll explore Azure services, along with working on virtual memory systems (VMS) and deployment models. You will understand various services in the Azure ecosystem, such as Azure IoT and Azure Analytics, among others. An easy-to-follow introduction to various cloud design patterns will also add to your efficiency in designing cloud solutions. In the concluding chapters, you'll secure your virtual networks using Network security groups and configure Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) to set a custom domain name and company profile. By the end of this book, you will have learned to secure and troubleshoot your Azure cloud environment and be fully aware of best practices for Azure cloud administration.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Azure SQL elastic database pools

In the previous chapter, we gave you a sneak peek at elastic database pools. In this section, you will learn more about them, and you will work on creating and managing them.

Benefits of using elastic database pools

An elastic database pool can help you to achieve the following:

  • Simplify performance management for multiple databases, especially when usage patterns are unpredictable
  • Reduce the cost of multiple databases and provide a convenient way to control the budget
  • Perfect choice for Software as a service (SaaS) apps that provision a single database per tenant, to get isolation benefits

It's not recommended to use elastic database pools for mission critical applications that require...