SQL in Azure – Azure SQL
Microsoft SQL Server is one of the most popular databases and is often the core of many popular applications. Thanks to Azure, we can skip the whole cluster setup, installation, and maintenance by using Azure SQL—a cloud version of SQL Server with the same features available. Thanks to flexible pricing, we can select whichever option we want when it comes to both performance and available features. We don’t have to worry about geo-replication and storing backups either—all these functionalities can be easily configured and automated in the cloud.
By the end of the chapter, you will have gained fundamental knowledge regarding working with Azure SQL in Azure and learned various built-in features of that service.
The following topics will be covered in this chapter:
- Differences between Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL
- Creating and configuring an Azure SQL Database instance
- Working with Azure SQL in the Azure...