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Professional Azure SQL Managed Database Administration - Third Edition

By : Ahmad Osama, Shashikant Shakya
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Professional Azure SQL Managed Database Administration - Third Edition

By: Ahmad Osama, Shashikant Shakya

Overview of this book

Despite being the cloud version of SQL Server, Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance stands out in various aspects when it comes to management, maintenance, and administration. Updated with the latest Azure features, Professional Azure SQL Managed Database Administration continues to be a comprehensive guide for becoming proficient in data management. The book begins by introducing you to the Azure SQL managed databases (Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance), explaining their architecture, and how they differ from an on-premises SQL server. You will then learn how to perform common tasks, such as migrating, backing up, and restoring a SQL Server database to an Azure database. As you progress, you will study how you can save costs and manage and scale multiple SQL databases using elastic pools. You will also implement a disaster recovery solution using standard and active geo-replication. Finally, you will explore the monitoring and tuning of databases, the key features of databases, and the phenomenon of app modernization. By the end of this book, you will have mastered the key aspects of an Azure SQL database and Azure SQL managed instance, including migration, backup restorations, performance optimization, high availability, and disaster recovery.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Index

Summary

Migrating to an Azure SQL Database or SQL Managed Instance is an important task and should be planned to perfection. This chapter talked about the migration strategy that you should follow when migrating from an on-premises database to an Azure SQL Database or SQL Managed Instance. A good database migration strategy includes the following steps: determining the migration benefits, selecting the right destination by choosing the correct pricing model and service tier, choosing primary and disaster recovery regions to deploy resources to, determining compatibility issues, and selecting a migration tool based on the migration approach.

In this chapter, we talked about assessment tools. We saw various ways to perform online/offline database migration to Azure SQL Database and SQL Managed Instance. We also covered different migration tools to migrate the data and the schema from an on-premises SQL Server database to an Azure SQL Database and SQL Managed Instance.

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