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Professional Azure SQL Managed Database Administration

You're reading from   Professional Azure SQL Managed Database Administration Efficiently manage and modernize data in the cloud using Azure SQL

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801076524
Length 724 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Ahmad Osama Ahmad Osama
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Shashikant Shakya Shashikant Shakya
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Preface 1. Introduction to Azure SQL managed databases 2. Service tiers FREE CHAPTER 3. Migration 4. Backups 5. Restoration 6. Security 7. Scalability 8. Elastic and instance pools 9. High availability and disaster recovery 10. Monitoring and tuning 11. Database features 12. App modernization Index

4. Backups

Database backups are among the most important tasks a database administrator must perform. A good database backup strategy can help recovery from system outages, unwanted deletions or updates, database corruption issues, and other related issues.

This chapter will help you back up an Azure SQL Database and an Azure SQL Managed Instance. You'll learn about automated and manual backups, explore automated backup features, and perform the manual backup of an Azure SQL Managed Instance.

This chapter explores different backup and restore options, such as automated backups, transactional consistent backups, and manual backups. We will be covering the following topics:

  • Automatic backups
  • Optimizing backup storage cost
  • Configuring long-term backup retention for Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance
  • Exporting an Azure SQL database using the Azure portal
  • Exporting an Azure SQL database using PowerShell
  • Performing a manual COPY_ONLY...
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