Learning Microsoft Azure Storage

Azure SQL Database business continuity

So far, you have your database up and running on the cloud, and you can even connect to it, create, delete, and update the tables as you wish.

I think that should satisfy most of your needs, but since a database is something critical and you need to make sure that it will not be lost if corruption occurs, you will need to take some backups.

Unfortunately, when you check the database blade, you will notice that backup is not mentioned in the blade, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 4.16: Azure SQL Database blade settings