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Learning Microsoft Azure Storage

You're reading from   Learning Microsoft Azure Storage Build large-scale, real-world apps by effectively planning, deploying, and implementing Azure storage solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785884917
Length 276 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mohamed Waly Mohamed Waly
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Preface 1. Understanding Azure Storage 101 FREE CHAPTER 2. Delving into Azure Storage 3. Azure Storage for VMs 4. Implementing Azure SQL Databases 5. Beyond Azure SQL Database Management 6. Azure Backup 7. Azure Site Recovery 8. Extending Your Azure Storage Management

Service tiers

Azure SQL Database is available in two flavors:

  • Elastic database pools
  • Single databases

Elastic database pools

Elastic database pools are a great solution for managing multiple databases, scaling their performance according to the databases' needs, which means it is a good fit for databases with unpredictable usage demands, and that leads to a saving on credits. Elastic database pools share performance across many databases since all of these databases are built on a single Azure SQL Database server.

At the time of writing, elastic database pools are generally available in all Azure regions, except in West India, as they are in the preview there. However, they will be generally available there too as...

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