© Francesco Diaz, Roberto Freato  2018
Francesco Diaz and Roberto FreatoCloud Data Design, Orchestration, and Management Using Microsoft Azurehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3615-4_1

1. Working with Azure Database Services Platform

Francesco Diaz1  and Roberto Freato2
(1)
Peschiera Borromeo, Milano, Italy
(2)
Milano, Italy
 

To get the most out of the power of cloud services we need to introduce how to deal with relational data using a fully managed RDBMS service, which is, in Microsoft Azure, SQL Database.

SQL Database is the managed representation of Microsoft SQL Server in the cloud. Can be instantiated in seconds/minutes and it runs even large applications without minimal administrative effort.

Understanding the Service

SQL Database can be viewed ...

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