Professional Azure SQL Database Administration

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 Description
As 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 for
This 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.