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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

Summary


Restoring an Azure SQL Database is different from restoring an on-premises SQL Server Database. In this chapter, you learned about the following restore options:

  1. Point-In-Time Restore

  2. Restore a deleted database

  3. Geo-Restore a database

  4. Restore a database from Azure Vault

  5. Import a BACPAC

Each of these options can be leveraged in different scenarios. For example, a Point-In-Time restore will help you recover from a corrupt database or accidental deletes, whereas importing a BACPAC helps you set up a development environment with the same schema and data across development, testing, and integration.