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Professional Azure SQL Database Administration

By : Ahmad Osama
Book Image

Professional Azure SQL Database Administration

By: Ahmad Osama

Overview of this book

As the cloud version of SQL Server, Azure SQL Database differs in key ways when it comes to management, maintenance, and administration. It’s important to know how to administer SQL Database to fully benefit from all of the features and functionality that it provides. This book addresses important aspects of an Azure SQL Database instance such as migration, backup restorations, pricing policies, security, scalability, monitoring, performance optimization, high availability, and disaster recovery. It is a complete guide for database administrators, and ideal for those who are planning to migrate from on premise SQL Server database to an Azure SQL Server database.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Professional Azure SQL Database Administration
Contributors
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Microsoft Azure SQL Database Primer
4
Restoring an Azure SQL Database
Index

Determining the Migration Method


Once you find and fix compatibility issues, the next step is to select a migration tool or method and perform the actual migration. There are different methods available for various scenarios. The selection largely depends on downtime, database size, and network speed/quality.

Here's a comparison of various migration methods to help you correctly choose a migration method:

Migration Method

Description

Downtime

Database Size

SQL Server Management Studio – Deploy Database to Azure SQL Database

Wizard-based GUI to export on-premises database to bacpac and import the bacpac onto Azure SQL Database.

Yes (depends on database size)

Small to Medium databases

Sqlpackage.exe

Command-line utility to export on-premises databases to bacpac and import the bacpac on to Azure SQL Database.

Yes (Depends on database size)

Small to Medium databases

Manual (Dacpac and BCP)

Use sqlpackage.exe to export dacpac (only schema) and bcp out data in a folder...