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8. Availability for Azure SQL

Bob Ward1  
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North Richland Hills, TX, USA
 

You have now made the journey from deploy to configure to security and then to monitor and tune performance. The final piece of the core of Azure SQL is availability . I have rarely talked to a SQL Server customer over the years that didn’t need their database to be highly available. I also almost never talk to a customer who doesn’t care about being able to recover from a disaster. Therefore, this chapter is really about High Availability and Disaster Recovery (HADR) for Azure SQL. I will tell you that in my opinion after now assessing and using Azure SQL over this last year, the built-in ...

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