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Microsoft® Azure™ SQL Database Step by Step
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Microsoft® Azure™ SQL Database Step by Step

by Leonard G. Lobel, Eric D. Boyd
July 2014
Beginner
400 pages
11h 35m
English
Microsoft Press
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Chapter 3. Differences between SQL Server and Microsoft Azure SQL Database

Leonard Lobel

One of the most attractive aspects of Microsoft Azure SQL Database is that it shares virtually the same codebase and exposes the same tabular data stream (TDS) as on-premises Microsoft SQL Server. Thus, to a great extent, the same tools and applications that work with SQL Server work just the same and just as well with SQL Database. Notice that we said to a great extent, because despite their commonality, there are quite a few SQL Server features that SQL Database does not support. In this brief chapter, we discuss how and why these two platforms differ from one another, and we explain the SQL Database constraints you need to be aware of if you have previous ...

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