Cloud technologies have been growing over the last couple of years and nowadays they are able to cover every global, technical, or business need without compromise. SQL Server can be completely hosted in cloud environments; we would also have Microsoft SQL Server provisioned on-premise but we still use the advantages of cloud environment. In this chapter, we will provide an overview of what's possible in Azure when manipulating data, and then we will go through hybrid scenarios combining on-premise instances of SQL Server with Azure.
The main outcomes of this chapter are:
- Overview of data related technologies in Microsoft Azure: In this chapter, a set of server and serverless technologies will be described
- Microsoft SQL Server 2017 and hybrid scenarios: This chapter offers end-to-end and step-by-step samples of several features such...