Chapter 11: Combining SQL Server 2019 with Azure
Microsoft Azure, as well as other cloud technologies, have been growing over the last couple of years and nowadays, they can cover every global, technical, or business need without compromise. When it comes to Microsoft SQL Server, we can provision it on-premises, but SQL Server can also be completely hosted in cloud environments. Nowadays, we see more hosting alternatives for SQL Server in Azure, and this sometimes leads to a point of confusion for on-premises DBAs. In this chapter, we will describe a set of server and serverless technologies offered by Azure for database hosting. We will also take an end-to-end and step-by-step look at some samples of several features, such as data files in Azure, backing up to URL, and managing backups to Azure. We will provide an overview of what's possible in Azure when manipulating data, and then we will go through some hybrid scenarios where we'll be combining on-premise instances of...