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Professional Azure SQL Database Administration

You're reading from   Professional Azure SQL Database Administration Equip yourself with the skills you need to manage and maintain your SQL databases on the Microsoft cloud

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789538854
Length 398 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ahmad Osama Ahmad Osama
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Summary

In this chapter, you learned about high availability and disaster recovery features in Azure SQL Database. High availability is built into Azure SQL Database and is managed by Microsoft, whereas disaster recovery can be achieved by configuring Active Geo-replication as and when required

Active Geo-replication asynchronously replicates the databases across regions. It offers both manual and automatic failover. Automatic failover can be done using auto-failover over groups.

Other than disaster recovery, Active Geo-replication can also be helpful in offloading read workloads to the readable secondaries, database maintenance, and application deployments.

You also learned to automate auto-failover groups and Active Geo-replication using PowerShell.

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