Discover how you can migrate a traditional on-premise SQL server database to a cloud-based solution with Microsoft Azure. Built with database administrators in mind, this book emulates different scenarios you might come across while working with large, complex SQL database migrations and provides solutions for effectively managing the migrated databases.
Key Features
Implement backup, restore, and recovery of Azure SQL databases
Create shards and elastic pools to scale Azure SQL databases
Automate common management tasks with PowerShell
Implement over 40 practical activities and exercises across 24 topics to reinforce your learning
Book DescriptionAs the cloud version of SQL Server, Azure SQL Database differs in key ways when it comes to management, maintenance, and administration. It's important to know how to administer SQL Database to fully benefit from all of the features and functionality that it provides. This book addresses important aspects of an Azure SQL Database instance such as migration, backup restorations, pricing policies, security, scalability, monitoring, performance optimization, high availability, and disaster recovery. It is a complete guide for database administrators, and ideal for those who are planning to migrate from on premise SQL Server database to an Azure SQL Server database.
What you will learn
Learn how to provision a new database or migrate an existing on-premise solution
Understand how to backup, restore, secure, and scale your own Azure SQL Database
Optimize the performance by monitoring and tuning your cloud-based SQL instance
Implement high availability and disaster recovery procedures with SQL Database
Develop a roadmap for your own scalable cloud solution with Azure SQL Database
Who this book is forThis book is ideal for database administrators, database developers, or application developers who are interested in developing or migrating existing applications with Azure SQL Database. Prior experience of working with an on-premise SQL Server deployment and brief knowledge of PowerShell and C# are recommended prerequisites.
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Höhe: 235 mm
Breite: 191 mm
Dicke: 22 mm
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ISBN-13
978-1-78953-885-4 (9781789538854)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Ahmad Osama works for Pitney Bowes India Pvt Ltd as a database engineer and is a Microsoft Data Platform Reconnect MVP. In his day to day job at Pitney Bowes, he works on developing and maintaining high performance on-premise and cloud SQL Server OLTP environments, building CI/CD environments for databases and automation. Other than his day to day work, Ahmad blogs at "dataplatformlabs" and has written over 100 blogs on various topics, including SQL Server Administration/Development, Azure SQL Database, and Azure Data Factory. He regularly speaks at user group events and webinars conducted by the Dataplatformlabs community. You can reach him on LinkedIn at "ahmadosama3" or follow his twitter handle @_ahmadosama.
Table of Contents
Microsoft Azure SQL Database Primer
Migrating a SQL Server Database to an Azure SQL Database
Backing Up the Azure SQL Database
Restoring an Azure SQL Database
Securing an Azure SQL Database
Scaling Out Azure SQL Database
Elastic Pools
High Availability and Disaster Recovery
Monitoring and Tuning Azure SQL Database
