Practical Azure SQL Database for Modern Developers: Building Applications in the Microsoft Cloud

© Davide Mauri, Silvano Coriani, Anna Hoffman, Sanjay Mishra, Jovan Popovic 2021

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6. Practical Use of Tables and Indexes

Davide Mauri¹ , Silvano Coriani², Anna Hoffman³, Sanjay Mishra¹ and Jovan Popovic⁴

(1)

Redmond, WA, USA

(2)

Legnano, Milano, Italy

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Sherman Oaks, CA, USA

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Belgrade, Serbia

 

When people imagine a table, in most of the cases, this looks like an Excel spreadsheet. There are a bunch of cells organized in rows and columns, and there is usually one column that contains the identifiers of the rows.

Azure SQL enables you to use much more than a plain table. You can configure and optimize your table for some specific query patterns, ...