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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)

Backup to URL

A great strategy for on-premises SQL Server databases is to back up to Azure Storage. There are many benefits to leveraging the massive scale of the cloud to hold backups.

Benefits

  • You can think of using Azure Storage as a cost-effective off-site backup location that is an extension of your own local data center and is highly performant and highly available. With the help of Microsoft, you can quite easily scale your storage account to 5 PB.
  • Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS) is designed to provide at least 99.99999999999999% durability over a given year by replicating your data to a secondary region that is hundreds of miles away from your primary region, that is, your paired region.
  • There are no Storage Array Networks (SANs) or file shares for you to administer and support. Azure services will take care of this, thus reducing hardware administration costs.
  • Using the latest version of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) makes setup quick and easy with...