Professional Azure SQL Database Administration: Equip yourself with the skills you need to manage and maintain your SQL databases on the Microsoft cloud

Book Description
As the cloud version of SQL Server, Azure SQL Database differs in key ways when it comes to management, maintenance, and administration. It’s important to know how to administer SQL Database to fully benefit from all of the features and functionality that it provides. This book addresses important aspects of an Azure SQL Database instance such as migration, backup restorations, pricing policies, security, scalability, monitoring, performance optimization, high availability, and disaster recovery. It is a complete guide for database administrators, and ideal for those who are planning to migrate from on premise SQL Server database to an Azure SQL Server database.

What you will learn
Learn how to provision a new database or migrate an existing on-premise solution
Understand how to backup, restore, secure, and scale your own Azure SQL Database
Optimize the performance by monitoring and tuning your cloud-based SQL instance
Implement high availability and disaster recovery procedures with SQL Database
Develop a roadmap for your own scalable cloud solution with Azure SQL Database
Who this book is for
This book is ideal for database administrators, database developers, or application developers who are interested in developing or migrating existing applications with Azure SQL Database. Prior experience of working with an on-premise SQL Server deployment and brief knowledge of PowerShell and C# are recommended prerequisites.

Table of Contents
Microsoft Azure SQL Database Primer
Migrating a SQL Server Database to an Azure SQL Database
Backing Up the Azure SQL Database
Restoring an Azure SQL Database
Securing an Azure SQL Database
Scaling Out Azure SQL Database
Elastic Pools
High Availability and Disaster Recovery
Monitoring and Tuning Azure SQL Database