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Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Services for Architects

You're reading from   Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Services for Architects Designing Cloud Solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2019
Publisher Wiley
ISBN-13 9781119596578
Length 448 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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John Savill John Savill
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

1. Cover FREE CHAPTER
2. Acknowledgments
3. About the Author
4. Introduction
5. Chapter 1 The Cloud and Microsoft Azure Fundamentals 6. Chapter 2 Governance 7. Chapter 3 Identity 8. Chapter 4 Identity Security and Extended Identity Services 9. Chapter 5 Networking 10. Chapter 6 Storage 11. Chapter 7 Azure Compute 12. Chapter 8 Azure Stack 13. Chapter 9 Backup, High Availability, Disaster Recovery, and Migration 14. Chapter 10 Monitoring and Security 15. Chapter 11 Managing Azure 16. Chapter 12 What to Do Next 17. Index
18. End User License Agreement

Azure Database Offerings

An in-depth examination of database offerings in Azure is outside the scope of this book, but I want to touch on two key database services in Azure: Azure SQL Database and Cosmos DB. Note that there are other offerings for databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB, which are offered as fully managed, enterprise-ready community versions of Database as a Service in Azure. There are more, but I am going to focus on what I consider the two main offerings that many organizations leverage.

Azure SQL Database

Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database offering where data is stored in tables that are made up of rows and columns based on a strict schema. Rows represent items, whereas columns represent attributes. Each table has a primary key, which must be unique within the table and can be used to quickly locate data, along with other indexed values that are often used for referencing or searching. Microsoft SQL Server is available in various SKUs and utilizes...

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