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Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2019

You're reading from   Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Reliability, scalability, and security both on premises and in the cloud

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838826215
Length 488 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Allan Hirt Allan Hirt
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Optimizing for performance, scalability and real‑time insights 2. Enterprise Security FREE CHAPTER 3. High Availability and Disaster Recovery 4. Hybrid Features – SQL Server and Microsoft Azure 5. SQL Server 2019 on Linux 6. SQL Server 2019 in Containers and Kubernetes 7. Data Virtualization 8. Machine Learning Services Extensibility Framework 9. SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters 10. Enhancing the Developer Experience 11. Data Warehousing 12. Analysis Services 13. Power BI Report Server 14. Modernization to the Azure Cloud

Replication to Azure SQL Database

One of Azure's most successful technologies within the database ecosystem is Azure SQL Database. One of the main advantages of this technology is that it completely removes the physical administration that you are probably used to with on-premises SQL Server. We no longer need to manage the hardware, storage, backups, operating system, and the database software itself. Even tasks such as consistency checks (DBCC CHECKDB) are Microsoft's responsibility. This frees you up for other important tasks, such as query optimization and indexing strategies, where you can really focus on making your application faster. The other key driving factor for the move to Azure SQL Database is the built-in, fault-tolerant, highly available infrastructure that equates to a 99.99% uptime SLA guarantee.

You shouldn't be surprised to hear that Microsoft has a cloud-first strategy. With the fact that Azure SQL Database shares the same codebase as on-premises...

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