Why Azure SQL Database?
Azure SQL database gives us the best option for low-cost development with minimal administration required to get started with our cloud application design and development. It supports most of the core database-level capabilities of SQL servers. However, some of the features dependent on on-premises applications may not be available here.
The scalability feature ensures that we can increase the resources available to us at a given time to carry out our tasks without performing a costly manual upgrade instantly.
It has an availability of 99.995% as it supports point-in-time restore, enabling us to recover a database to the state it was in at any point in the past. It also replicates the databases to different regions to provide us with more resilience and disaster recovery. It provides us with fully automated backups, updates, and recovery to ensure that we are always running the latest and most secure version of the service.
It continuously monitors our database for suspicious activities and provides immediate security alerts on SQL injection attacks, potential vulnerabilities, and anomalous database access patterns. Threat Detection alerts provide details of the suspicious activity and recommend action on how to investigate and mitigate the threat.
Some of the Often Use Cases are as follows,:
- New cloud projects where any necessary modifications to our apps should be accommodated in the application design.
- When we want the most recent SQL Server functionality to be utilized by our cloud apps.
- When we require high availability for our cloud apps.
- When our cloud apps need to instantly adjust how resources are allocated in response to demand and requirements.
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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