Professional Azure SQL Database Administration: Equip yourself with the skills you need to manage and maintain your SQL databases on the Microsoft cloud

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.

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Professional Azure SQL Database Administration: Equip yourself with the skills you need to manage and maintain your SQL databases on the Microsoft cloud

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.

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Professional Azure SQL Database Administration: Equip yourself with the skills you need to manage and maintain your SQL databases on the Microsoft cloud

Professional Azure SQL Database Administration: Equip yourself with the skills you need to manage and maintain your SQL databases on the Microsoft cloud

by Ahmad Osama
Professional Azure SQL Database Administration: Equip yourself with the skills you need to manage and maintain your SQL databases on the Microsoft cloud

Professional Azure SQL Database Administration: Equip yourself with the skills you need to manage and maintain your SQL databases on the Microsoft cloud

by Ahmad Osama

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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781789535679
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Publication date: 07/31/2018
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 398
File size: 43 MB
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About the Author

Ahmad Osama works for Pitney Bowes India Pvt Ltd as a database engineer and is a Microsoft Data Platform Reconnect MVP. In his day to day job at Pitney Bowes, he works on developing and maintaining high performance on-premise and cloud SQL Server OLTP environments, building CI/CD environments for databases and automation. Other than his day to day work, Ahmad blogs at "dataplatformlabs" and has written over 100 blogs on various topics, including SQL Server Administration/Development, Azure SQL Database, and Azure Data Factory. He regularly speaks at user group events and webinars conducted by the Dataplatformlabs community. You can reach him on LinkedIn at "ahmadosama3" or follow his twitter handle @_ahmadosama.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents
  1. Microsoft Azure SQL Database Primer
  2. Migrating a SQL Server Database to an Azure SQL Database
  3. Backing Up the Azure SQL Database
  4. Restoring an Azure SQL Database
  5. Securing an Azure SQL Database
  6. Scaling Out Azure SQL Database
  7. Elastic Pools
  8. High Availability and Disaster Recovery
  9. Monitoring and Tuning Azure SQL Database
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