You're reading from SQL Server 2019 Administrator's Guide A definitive guide for DBAs to implement, monitor, and maintain enterprise database solutions

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789954326

Length 522 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

SQL

Tools

SQL Server

Concepts

Database Administration

Authors (2):

Marek Chmel

Vladimír Mužný

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Provisioning the SQL Server Environment

2. Chapter 1: Setting Up SQL Server 2019 FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Keeping Your SQL Server Environment Healthy

4. Section 2: Server and Database Maintenance

5. Chapter 3: Implementing Backup and Recovery

6. Chapter 4: Securing Your SQL Server

7. Chapter 5: Working with Disaster Recovery Options

8. Chapter 6: Indexing and Performance

9. Section 3: High Availability and the Cloud with SQL Server 2019

10. Chapter 7: Planning Migration and Upgrade

11. Chapter 8: Automation – Using Tools to Manage and Monitor SQL Server 2019

12. Chapter 9: Configuring Always On High Availability Features

13. Chapter 10: In-Memory OLTP – Why and How to Use it

14. Chapter 11: Combining SQL Server 2019 with Azure

15. Chapter 12: Taming Big Data with SQL Server

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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...