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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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Restore types

This section discusses the different types of restore available in Azure SQL Database and SQL Managed Instance.

Point-in-time restore

Point-in-time restore (PITR) isn't new in the world of SQL Server. On-premises SQL servers allow you to restore a database to a particular point in time by specifying the point-in-time option when restoring the database using the restore command.

Azure SQL Database and SQL Managed Instance backups are managed by the automatic backups feature of the PaaS offering. Point-in-time restores can only be performed using the Azure portal, PowerShell, the Azure CLI, or the Azure SDK. PITR uses the automatic Full, Differential, and Log backups.

For all new, restored, and copied databases on Azure SQL Database and SQL Managed Instance, the default retention period is 7 days. The retention period can be adjusted for existing or deleted databases (the latter is only available on SQL Managed Instance):

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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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