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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

Summary

In this chapter, we've seen how easy it is to scale up or scale down an SQL database both automatically and manually. We've looked at both vertical and horizontal scaling. We've also learned how to autoscale SQL databases and shard a database, as well as how to create and maintain SQL database shards.

We have also learned about SQL Managed Instance scaling management operations and durations and we have seen alternate ways of scaling using internal read-replicas for Business Critical SQL Managed Instance. In the next chapter, we will learn how to scale SQL databases using elastic database pools and we will also learn about instance pools in SQL Managed Instance.