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Professional Azure SQL Database Administration

You're reading from Professional Azure SQL Database Administration

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Published in Jul 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789538854

Pages 398 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Database Administration

Author (1):

Ahmad Osama

Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Professional Azure SQL Database Administration

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Preface

1. Microsoft Azure SQL Database Primer

2. Migrating a SQL Server Database to an Azure SQL Database

3. Backing Up the Azure SQL Database

4. Restoring an Azure SQL Database

5. Securing an Azure SQL Database

6. Scaling Out Azure SQL Database

7. Elastic Pools

8. High Availability and Disaster Recovery

9. Monitoring and Tuning Azure SQL Database

Index

Automatic Backups

Microsoft provides automated backups for Azure SQL Databases.

Automatic backup consists of full, differential, and log backups. The first automatic full backup is performed immediately after the database is provisioned. The differential is scheduled to occur every hour, and transaction log backups are scheduled for every 5-10 minutes. The full backup is scheduled for once a week:

Figure 3.1: Automatic Backups

Note

Automatic backups are inaccessible. You can't download or do a manual restore from an automatic backup.

However, you can use automatic backup to restore the database using the Azure portal, Azure CLI, PowerShell, Azure, and .Net SDK.

Backup Storage

Microsoft gives you free backup storage which is double the size of your maximum provisioned database storage. For example, if you have a standard Azure SQL Database of size 100 GB, you get 200 GB of free backup storage. You can control the free backup storage size by limiting the retention period of the backups.

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Authors (1)

Ahmad Osama

Ahmad Osama works for Pitney Bowes Pvt. Ltd. as a technical architect and is a former Microsoft Data Platform MVP. In his day job, he works on developing and maintaining high performant, on-premises and cloud SQL Server OLTP environments as well as deployment and automating tasks using PowerShell. When not working, Ahmad blogs at DataPlatformLabs and can be found glued to his Xbox.

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