July 2018
Intermediate to advanced
398 pages
7h 43m
English
You can easily scale up or scale down an Azure SQL Database either automatically or manually. There are two types of scaling: vertical and horizontal.
Vertical scaling refers to switching to a higher or lower service tier, or vertically partitioning the data, which is to store different schema on different databases.
Horizontal scaling refers to dividing data from a single table into different individual databases.
This chapter teaches you how to auto scale Azure SQL Databases and shard a database. The chapter further talks about how to run cross-database queries.
By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:
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