Chapter 9
Managing Databases in Microsoft Azure
IN THIS CHAPTER
Evaluating Azure IaaS and PaaS for your application’s data tier
Investigating relational and nonrelational database systems in Azure
Working with Azure SQL Database
Working with Cosmos DB
Most line-of-business applications require a data tier to support data persistence, querying, and reporting, so the time has come for you to see how to implement databases in the Microsoft Azure public cloud.
Databases in the cloud aren’t new: SQL Data Services was the first cloud service that Microsoft made generally available. The year was 2008.
By the end of this chapter, you’ll be up to speed on both relational and nonrelational database options in Azure, and you’ll know the basics of their deployment and configuration.
Revisiting the IaaS versus PaaS Question
A common push–pull issue with customers in an Azure cloud solution architect’s life is making sure that a given workload belongs in Azure VMs rather than in various hosted Platform as a Service (PaaS) services. The data tier is an excellent example of this dynamic.
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