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SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
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SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines

by Joey D'Antoni, Louis Davidson, Allan Hirt, John Martin, Anthony Nocentino, Tim Radney, Randolph West
June 2020
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
200 pages
4h 4m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines

1. Introduction to SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines

Introduction

In this chapter, we introduce the relational SQL Server products that you can use in Azure to store and process transactional data in a relational format, which is to say data stored in tables and columns. To get started on this discussion, there are a few terms and concepts that are important to understand.

The concepts of platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) can be confusing and are used constantly when discussing services that allow you to build software on a cloud service. The fundamental distinction between the two lies in how managed the offering is. A service being managed means that the provider handles some amount of the operation ...

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ISBN: 9781800204591