Chapter 2: Working with Relational Databases in Azure
Microsoft Azure provides Azure SQL Database, PostgreSQL, and MySQL as Database-as-a-Service offerings. We can create an instance of these databases without worrying about the installation, administration, infrastructure, and upgrades.
Needless to say that we can install any of the available Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) databases, such as Oracle or DB2, on an Azure virtual machine (VM).
In a data pipeline, we can use any of the RDBMS databases as either a source or a destination. In this chapter, we'll learn how to provision, connect to, manage, maintain, and secure these databases.
We'll cover the following recipes in this chapter:
- Provisioning and connecting to an Azure SQL database using PowerShell
- Provisioning and connecting to an Azure PostgreSQL database using the Azure CLI
- Provisioning and connecting to an Azure MySQL database using the Azure CLI
- Implementing active geo-replication for an Azure SQL database using PowerShell
- Implementing an auto-failover group for an Azure SQL database using PowerShell
- Implementing vertical scaling for an Azure SQL database using PowerShell
- Implementing an Azure SQL database elastic pool using PowerShell
- Monitoring an Azure SQL database using the Azure portal
