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Azure SQL Revealed: A Guide to the Cloud for SQL Server Professionals
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Azure SQL Revealed: A Guide to the Cloud for SQL Server Professionals

by Bob Ward
October 2020
Intermediate to advanced
519 pages
11h 20m
English
Apress
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B. WardAzure SQL Revealedhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5931-3_2

2. What Is Azure SQL?

Bob Ward1  
(1)
North Richland Hills, TX, USA
 

“Bob, what is the cloud?” I vividly remember over a year ago my beautiful and talented wife Ginger asking me this question when I walked in our kitchen after coming home from work. I paused for a second, getting ready to present my incredible and thoughtful answer, and said, “Well, you see the cloud is….” Fifteen minutes later (as Ginger recalls; I thought it was just a few minutes), Ginger politely interrupted me and said, “Uh…I was kind of looking for the CliffNotes answer?” I was taken back. How can anyone define the cloud as something so simple when it is such a complex topic and provides so much. ...

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