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Professional Azure SQL Database Administration

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.

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Difficulty Level

Intermediate

Completion Time

13h16m

Language

English

About Book

Who Is This Book For?

This book is ideal for database administrators, database developers, or application developers who are interested in developing or migrating existing applications with Azure SQL Database. Prior experience of working with an on-premise SQL Server deployment and brief knowledge of PowerShell and C# are recommended prerequisites.

Book content

chapters 13h16m total length

Microsoft Azure SQL Database Primer

Migrating a SQL Server Database to an Azure SQL Database

Backing Up the Azure SQL Database

Restoring an Azure SQL Database

Securing an Azure SQL Database

Scaling Out Azure SQL Database

Elastic Pools

High Availability and Disaster Recovery

Monitoring and Tuning Azure SQL Database

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