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Published inMar 2021
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Ahmad Osama
Ahmad Osama
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Ahmad Osama

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

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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In this chapter, we discussed different deployment options for the Azure SQL family, such as SQL Managed Instance, SQL Database serverless, and the Hyperscale service tier. We also learned how managed databases help in application modernization by leveraging PaaS capabilities, such as backups, patching, availability, and easy scaling options. This allows developers to focus on their key application development and leave most of the database management operations to Microsoft.

With this, we have learned how to successfully set up SQL Database and SQL Managed Instance, migrate our data from an on-premises database to provisioned cloud databases and instances, how to scale these databases and instances as per our requirements, and how to manage our costs optimally. We've also looked at how to secure these databases and instances and the built-in high-availability features of SQL Database and SQL Managed Instance, and we discussed some of their more advanced functions....

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Published in: Mar 2021Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781801076524

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Ahmad Osama

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 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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