December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
434 pages
10h 14m
English
Data files in Azure is a topology in which SQL Server is running on-premise or as an Azure VM, metadata of user databases is stored in its master database, but files of these user databases are hosted in Azure blob storage. This feature is useful in scenarios when some database is often migrated between instances or we want to divide the instance and the data. This topology also benefits from the ability of snapshot backups, which will be mentioned at the end of this section.
First of all, the Storage account has to be created. It's done in Azure portal, as shown in the following screenshot:

The procedure goes from the ...
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