What is Microsoft Azure SQL Database?
The Microsoft Azure SQL Database is like a digital storage unit for your data, but it’s in the cloud. It’s managed by Microsoft, so you don’t have to worry about maintaining servers or backups. You can create databases, organize information into tables, and run queries to retrieve data. It’s a convenient and scalable way to store and manage your data online.
The databases are available as Single databases and elastic pools.
Single Database: This option helps the developers instantly get started with a single SQL Server database by creating and running it in the cloud and accessing this database through the server. It is a PaaS offering so everything is managed by Microsoft, so all we have to do is to configure the database, create the necessary tables required to carry out the operations, and fill in the required data. We can scale the database as per our requirements (if we need more storage, memory, and processing power). By default, Microsoft pre-allocates some resources and we are charged per hour based on the resources we are using.
We can also choose to have a server-less configuration. Here, Microsoft creates its own server for the database, which may get shared among other Azure subscribers but maintains the privacy of the database of its users. The database automatically scales and resources are allocated and unallocated as per the necessary requirements.
Elastic Pool: It is similar to single databases that we have talked about above, except that by default multiple databases can share the same resources (memory, storage space, processing power) through multiple tenancies. Here the different resources are referred to as a pool. This model is very useful when we have databases with resource requirements varying with time as it helps allocate and deallocate the resources as per our needs thus reducing costs and helping us be quick and efficient. It enables us to use resources available in the created pool and then release them once processing is complete.
Microsoft Azure SQL Database | Complete Tutorial
Azure SQL Database is a relational database (RDBMS) service provided by Microsoft Azure that is widely used by developers when creating new applications in the cloud. It is managed completely by Microsoft and is a highly scalable platform-as-a-service (PaaS) designed especially for cloud applications. Here, we create a managed database server in the cloud and use the server to deploy our database. The server is a logical construct that acts as the central administration point for pooled databases or multiple logins, auditing rules, threat detection policy, and failover groups.
Table of Content
- Microsoft Azure SQL Database
- What is Microsoft Azure SQL Database?
- Azure SQL vs. SQL Server
- Why Azure SQL Database?
- SQL Azure Architecture
- Azure SQL Database Features
- Azure SQL Database Tiers
- Azure SQL Database Services
- Microsoft Azure SQL Database Hands-on
- Querying using Azure SQL Database
- Pricing Of Azure SQL Database
- Deleting Databases in AzureSQL
- Conclusion
- Azure SQL Database – FAQs
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