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Professional Azure SQL Database Administration - Second Edition

By : Ahmad Osama
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Professional Azure SQL Database Administration - Second Edition

By: Ahmad Osama

Overview of this book

Despite being the cloud version of SQL Server, Azure SQL Database differs in key ways when it comes to management, maintenance, and administration. This book shows you how to administer Azure SQL Database to fully benefit from its wide range of features and functionalities. Professional Azure SQL Database Administration begins by covering the architecture and explaining the difference between Azure SQL Database and the on-premise SQL Server to help you get comfortable with Azure SQL Database. You’ll perform common tasks such as migrating, backing up and restoring a SQL Server database to an Azure database. As you progress, you’ll understand how you can reduce costs, and manage and scale multiple SQL databases using elastic pools. You’ll also implement a disaster recovery solution using standard and active geo-replication. Whether it is learning different techniques to monitor and tune an Azure SQL Database or improving performance using in-memory technology, this book will enable you to make the most out of Azure SQL database features and functionality for data management solutions. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-versed with key aspects of an Azure SQL Database instance, such as migration, backup restorations, performance optimization, high availability, and disaster recovery.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Summary

Restoring an Azure SQL database is different from restoring an on-premises SQL Server database. In this lesson, you learned about the following restore options:

  • PITR
  • Restoring a deleted database
  • Geo-restoring a database
  • Restoring a database from Azure Vault
  • Importing a BACPAC file

Each of these options can be leveraged in different scenarios. For example, a PITR will help you recover from a corrupt database or accidental deletion, whereas importing a BACPAC file helps you set up a development environment with the same schema and data across development, testing, and integration.

In the next lesson, we will look at the security mechanisms available to secure an Azure SQL database.