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Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2019

By : Kellyn Gorman, Allan Hirt, Dave Noderer, Mitchell Pearson, James Rowland-Jones, Dustin Ryan, Arun Sirpal, Buck Woody
Book Image

Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2019

By: Kellyn Gorman, Allan Hirt, Dave Noderer, Mitchell Pearson, James Rowland-Jones, Dustin Ryan, Arun Sirpal, Buck Woody

Overview of this book

Microsoft SQL Server comes equipped with industry-leading features and the best online transaction processing capabilities. If you are looking to work with data processing and management, getting up to speed with Microsoft Server 2019 is key. Introducing SQL Server 2019 takes you through the latest features in SQL Server 2019 and their importance. You will learn to unlock faster querying speeds and understand how to leverage the new and improved security features to build robust data management solutions. Further chapters will assist you with integrating, managing, and analyzing all data, including relational, NoSQL, and unstructured big data using SQL Server 2019. Dedicated sections in the book will also demonstrate how you can use SQL Server 2019 to leverage data processing platforms, such as Apache Hadoop and Spark, and containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes to control your data and efficiently monitor it. By the end of this book, you'll be well versed with all the features of Microsoft SQL Server 2019 and understand how to use them confidently to build robust data management solutions.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

4. Hybrid Features – SQL Server and Microsoft Azure

One of the unique capabilities of SQL Server is the ability to leverage the power of hybrid cloud infrastructure. There are several ways to leverage Azure to improve the high availability and disaster recover of an on-premises SQL Server deployment. Azure Storage is a core service offered by Microsoft Azure is Azure Storage. It offers enterprise-ready, highly scalable, flexible storage solutions at competitive prices. SQL Server 2019 and Azure Storage work together to benefit users. We can leverage Azure Blob storage to develop and deploy hybrid solutions, such as backing up on-premises SQL Server databases to the cloud (also called Backup to URL) and building SQL Server data files in Azure Storage to use file-snapshot backups.

It is also possible to enhance your disaster recovery strategy by leveraging Azure so that it ultimately becomes your secondary data center. There are many ways to benefit from this. A common...