December 2019
Intermediate to advanced
494 pages
11h 41m
English
You have two options when it comes to hosting a SQL Server database in Azure. You either go for Azure SQL Server, which gives you a nice database instance without much hassle, or you host a VM and install SQL Server on that. Azure SQL is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution, while a VM is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solution. Since the IaaS solution that's installing your database on a VM is basically the same as hosting your own on-premises version of SQL Server, except on a machine running in the cloud, we're not going to talk about that in this chapter. This chapter will focus on PaaS solutions.
If you're looking for IaaS solutions, Azure has plenty of VM images that come with preinstalled (SQL) databases, ...