Skip to Content
Hands-On Cloud Administration in Azure
book

Hands-On Cloud Administration in Azure

by Mustafa Toroman
October 2018
Beginner to intermediate
390 pages
9h 9m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Hands-On Cloud Administration in Azure

Migrating a database to the cloud

Once we have our Storage account, we can start loading data. This can be any type of file, we can use storage as a staging phase in which we prepare uploaded files before they are actually used, or we can upload files that are directly used by our applications.

Over the years, I've seen many organizations using Azure Storage as a backup location for on-premises SQL databases. This is a convenient way to start our cloud journey as we get relatively cheap storage that is offsite and encrypted.

Once databases are stored to cloud, the next step would be to use backups to restore a database in Azure and start using them either as IaaS or PaaS.

Let's see how we can back up our database directly to Azure Storage. ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Implementing Azure: Putting Modern DevOps to Use

Implementing Azure: Putting Modern DevOps to Use

Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Markus Klein, Mohamed Wali
Exam Ref 70-533 Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions

Exam Ref 70-533 Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions

Michael Washam, Rick Rainey, Dan Patrick, Steve Ross

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781789134964