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Azure for Developers - Third Edition
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Azure for Developers - Third Edition

by Kamil Mrzygłód
July 2025
Intermediate to advanced
584 pages
14h 43m
English
Packt Publishing
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Using Relational Databases in Microsoft Azure

Almost every application requires storage to store its state. While, of course, there are applications that can work without a database, for the majority of business-oriented services, you will need storage to store data. In this chapter, we will focus on relational databases offered as managed services in Azure. This will help in understanding the differences between databases provisioned on-premises and their cloud versions, so you can decide which option suits you best.

Understanding how relational databases work in cloud environments is important from both a design and implementation perspective. As you will see, there are some major differences present, so it’s important to have a solution ...

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ISBN: 9781836203513