Appendix
Getting started
The purpose of this appendix is to help you get started and set up your environment so that you have everything you need to get the most out of this book.
You can run the code samples in this book either on a Microsoft SQL Server box flavor (on premises) or on a cloud flavor such as Azure SQL Database or Azure SQL Managed Instance. For details about the differences between the flavors, see the section “SQL Server architecture” in Chapter 1, “Background to T-SQL querying and programming.”
The first section in this appendix, “Getting started with Azure SQL,” provides a link to the website where you can find the information you need to get started with the cloud option.
The second section, “Installing a SQL Server box product ...
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