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Professional Azure SQL Managed Database Administration - Third Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Mar 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801076524
Pages 724 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Ahmad Osama Ahmad Osama
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Ahmad Osama works for Pitney Bowes Pvt. Ltd. as a technical architect and is a former Microsoft Data Platform MVP. In his day job, he works on developing and maintaining high performant, on-premises and cloud SQL Server OLTP environments as well as deployment and automating tasks using PowerShell. When not working, Ahmad blogs at DataPlatformLabs and can be found glued to his Xbox.
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Shashikant Shakya Shashikant Shakya
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Shashikant Shakya is a passionate technologist with decades of experience in the sphere of databases. He works for Microsoft as a senior support engineer. In his day job, he works on Azure SQL Database, Azure Database for MySQL, and PostgreSQL. Apart from his work, he is a regular speaker at the SQLBangalore community group.
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface 1. Introduction to Azure SQL managed databases 2. Service tiers 3. Migration 4. Backups 5. Restoration 6. Security 7. Scalability 8. Elastic and instance pools 9. High availability and disaster recovery 10. Monitoring and tuning 11. Database features 12. App modernization Index

Introduction to Azure SQL Managed Instance

Azure SQL Managed Instance is a fully managed SQL Server instance offering announced in May 2017 and made generally available on October 1, 2018.

Azure SQL Managed Instance provides nearly 100% surface area compatibility with the latest SQL Server (Enterprise Edition) database engine, providing all the PaaS benefits available with Azure SQL Database, such as automatic patching and version updates, automatic backups, high availability, and so on.

Note that Azure SQL Managed Instance is its own product within the Azure SQL family, rather than being just a deployment option for Azure SQL Database, with near 100% compatibility with on-premises SQL Server instances.

Azure SQL Managed Instance supports most of the instance-scoped features of traditional SQL Server deployment, which were previously not available in Azure SQL Database, since Azure SQL Database is scoped at the database-level. Azure SQL Managed Instance, therefore, provides...

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Profile icon Ahmad Osama
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Ahmad Osama works for Pitney Bowes Pvt. Ltd. as a technical architect and is a former Microsoft Data Platform MVP. In his day job, he works on developing and maintaining high performant, on-premises and cloud SQL Server OLTP environments as well as deployment and automating tasks using PowerShell. When not working, Ahmad blogs at DataPlatformLabs and can be found glued to his Xbox.
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Shashikant Shakya is a passionate technologist with decades of experience in the sphere of databases. He works for Microsoft as a senior support engineer. In his day job, he works on Azure SQL Database, Azure Database for MySQL, and PostgreSQL. Apart from his work, he is a regular speaker at the SQLBangalore community group.
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