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Professional Azure SQL Database Administration

You're reading from   Professional Azure SQL Database Administration Equip yourself with the skills you need to manage and maintain your SQL databases on the Microsoft cloud

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789538854
Length 398 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ahmad Osama Ahmad Osama
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High Availability


High availability refers to providing business continuity when the physical server hosting the Azure SQL Database fails.

As discussed in Chapter 1, Microsoft Azure SQL Database Primer, an Azure SQL Database is hosted on three servers – one primary and two secondary servers:

Figure 8.1: Azure SQL Database is Hosted on Three Servers

The toyfactory database consists of three servers; one primary and at least two secondary servers. The Azure SQL Server is just a logical server name used for connection. When an application sends a connection request, the gateway finds out the current primary server and routes the request to the primary server.

The primary and secondary servers are within the same datacentre and together form a quorum-set.

All read and writes are made to the primary server. Azure SQL Database uses a quorum-based commit method that makes sure that the data is hardened at the primary server and replicated to at least one secondary server before the transaction...

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