Azure SQL Database offers a relational database in the cloud. It uses the last stable SQL Server on-premises database engine. Azure SQL Database can be used for a variety of applications, because it enables you to process both relational data and non-relational structures, such as graphs, JSON, spatial, and XML.
Azure SQL Database offers scalability, without causing any downtime for your databases. It offers column-based indexes, which make your queries perform much more quickly. There is built-in monitoring for your databases and built-in intelligence for increasing the performance of your database automatically, and it provides high availability, by providing automatic backups and point-in-time restores. You can also use active geo-replication, for global applications.
Azure SQL Database offers the following tiers for your databases:
- Elastic database pool: Elastic pools are a feature that helps in managing and scaling databases that have unpredictable...