Summary
In this chapter, we've seen how easy it is to scale up or scale down an SQL database both automatically and manually. We've looked at both vertical and horizontal scaling. We've also learned how to autoscale SQL databases and shard a database, as well as how to create and maintain SQL database shards.
We have also learned about SQL Managed Instance scaling management operations and durations and we have seen alternate ways of scaling using internal read-replicas for Business Critical SQL Managed Instance. In the next chapter, we will learn how to scale SQL databases using elastic database pools and we will also learn about instance pools in SQL Managed Instance.
