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Published inApr 2014
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ISBN-139781782172413
Edition1st Edition
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Gethyn Ellis
Gethyn Ellis
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Gethyn Ellis

Gethyn Ellis has over eighteen years of experience with SQL Server and for past ten years he has been working on Azure. He is an Microsoft certified trainer. He also trains and is a consultant for SQL Server. Prior to this he has worked with Packt and written books on "Getting Started SQL Server 2014 Administration" , "Microsoft Azure laaS Essentials", and Professional Azure SQL Database Administration.
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Database backups to a URL and Microsoft Azure Storage

The ability to backup to a URL was introduced in SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 cumulative update package 2. Prior to this, if you wanted to backup to a URL in SQL Server 2012, you needed to use Transact-SQL or PowerShell. SQL Server 2014 has integrated this option into Management Studio too.

The reason for allowing backups to a URL is to allow you to integrate your SQL Server backups with cloud-based storage and store your backups in Microsoft Azure. You saw in the first chapter that you can now place your database files on Microsoft Azure cloud-based storage. By being able to create a backup there, you can keep database backups of your on-premise database in Microsoft Azure. This makes your backups safer and protected in the event that your main site is lost to a disaster as your backups are stored offsite. This can avoid the need for an actual disaster recovery site.

In order to create a backup to Microsoft Azure Storage, you need a...

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Gethyn Ellis has over eighteen years of experience with SQL Server and for past ten years he has been working on Azure. He is an Microsoft certified trainer. He also trains and is a consultant for SQL Server. Prior to this he has worked with Packt and written books on "Getting Started SQL Server 2014 Administration" , "Microsoft Azure laaS Essentials", and Professional Azure SQL Database Administration.
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