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Professional Azure SQL Managed Database Administration - Third Edition

By : Ahmad Osama, Shashikant Shakya
Book Image

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

Activity: Setting a minimum TLS version using the Azure portal and PowerShell for SQL Managed Instance

The process of setting up a minimal TLS version for SQL Database and SQL Managed Instance using the Azure portal is almost the same. In this activity, we are using the SQL Managed Instance Networking tab to enforce a minimum TLS version for SQL Managed Instance, but the same can be done for SQL Database using the Firewalls and Virtual Networks tab.

Using the Azure portal

A minimum TLS version can be easily set using the Azure portal, but we should test application compatibility before enabling it in production:

  1. Log in to the Azure portal: https://portal.azure.com.
  2. Navigate to SQL Managed Instance and under Security, click on Networking:
    Setting the minimum TLS version

    Figure 6.85: Networking tab

  3. Select a minimum TLS version and click on Save to apply.

Using PowerShell

Use can use these PowerShell commands to set the minimum TLS version:

#setting up variable as per our environment...