Chapter 3
Backing Up an Azure SQL Database
Learning Objectives
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
- Perform manual and automatic backups
- Export an Azure SQL Database using the Azure portal
- Export an Azure SQL Database using PowerShell
This lesson explores different backup and restore options such as automated backups, transactional consistent backups and manual backups.
Introduction
Database backups are one of the most important things a database administrator has to perform. A good database backup strategy can help recover from system outages, unwanted deletes or updates, database corruption issues, and other related issues.
This lesson teaches you how to back up an Azure SQL Database. You'll learn about automated and manual ...
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