Further reading
For more information, refer to the following sources:
- How to understand DTUs: https://sqlperformance.com/2017/03/azure/what-the-heck-is-a-dtu
- Performance recommendations: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-database/sql-database-advisor
- Adaptive query processing: https://docs.microsoft.com/pl-pl/sql/relational-databases/performance/adaptive-query-processing?view=sql-server-2017
- Securing SQL Database: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-database/sql-database-security-overview
- Read scale-out: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-database/sql-database-read-scale-out
- Sharding: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-database/sql-database-elastic-scale-introduction