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Learn Microsoft Azure

By : Mohamed Waly
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Learn Microsoft Azure

By: Mohamed Waly

Overview of this book

Azure is one of the leading public cloud service providers. Thanks to a number of Azure service updates, it continues to make advances in the realm of cloud computing. Learn Microsoft Azure starts with the fundamentals of cloud computing. You will learn to configure and set up the Azure infrastructure. As you make your way through the book, you'll explore Azure services, along with working on virtual memory systems (VMS) and deployment models. You will understand various services in the Azure ecosystem, such as Azure IoT and Azure Analytics, among others. An easy-to-follow introduction to various cloud design patterns will also add to your efficiency in designing cloud solutions. In the concluding chapters, you'll secure your virtual networks using Network security groups and configure Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) to set a custom domain name and company profile. By the end of this book, you will have learned to secure and troubleshoot your Azure cloud environment and be fully aware of best practices for Azure cloud administration.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Azure SQL Database types

Azure SQL Database is available in three flavors:

  • Elastic database pools
  • Single databases
  • Managed instances

Elastic database pools

Elastic database pools are a great solution for managing multiple databases and scaling their performance according to the databases' needs, which means it is a good fit for databases with unpredictable usage demands, and this leads to a saving on credits. Elastic database pools share performance across many databases, since all of these databases are built on a single Azure SQL Database server.

Single databases

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