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Azure for Architects

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Azure for Architects

Overview of this book

Over the years, Azure cloud services has grown quickly, and the number of organizations adopting Azure for their cloud services is also gradually increasing. Leading industry giants are finding that Azure fulfills their extensive cloud requirements. This book will guide you through all the important and tough decision-making aspects involved in architecturing a Azure public cloud for your organization. The book starts with an extensive introduction to all the categories of designs available with Azure. These design patterns focus on different aspects of cloud such as high availability, data management, and so on. Gradually, we move on to various aspects such as building your cloud structure and architecture. It will also include a brief description about different types of services provided by Azure, such as Azure functions and Azure Analytics, which can prove beneficial for an organization. This book will cover each and every aspect and function required to develop a Azure cloud based on your organizational requirements. By the end of this book, you will be in a position to develop a full-fledged Azure cloud.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Azure SQL

Azure SQL is a cloud database as a service available in Azure. Microsoft's flagship database technology SQL Server has been available for more than 20 years and Microsoft provides the same on the cloud and provides complete database instances to its users. Azure SQL is a completely managed, relational database service providing higher productivity, faster and easier provisioning, and cheaper alternatives. It provides almost all features of a full-blown SQL Server without any need for managing infrastructure and licenses.

Azure SQL is based on a SQL Server database engine and provides a relational database as its core feature. Data is stored in a tabular format, in rows and columns. A combination of columns forms the schema for the table and rows are stored in a tabular form. Azure SQL is one of the most popular data destinations on Azure. Almost every application...