The creation of Azure SQL Server starts in the Azure portal in the same way as was described in the previous section. When finding a correct option, we need to use search term SQL Server 2017, because SQL Server 2016 is already offered. Azure portal will show a list of many options, but basically, we need to decide between three editions of SQL Server:
- Enterprise
- Standard
- Web
When the choice is done, we are asked for Deployment model. The deployment model decides if we will create a resource (virtual machine in our case) existing independently of other resources, or we can group more resources together logically. Deployment model can be:
- Classic: Newly created resource is independent.
- Resource Manager: Resources ...
