What is Azure SQL Database?

Microsoft created its Azure cloud platform to leverage various benefits like distributed storage and computing, such as flexible scaling, cost-savings from outsourcing in-house IT infrastructure, and maximized data availability. Azure SQL Database is a key component of that platform. Many applications now use Azure SQL Database as part of their data strategy.

Well Microsoft Azure provides 4 flavors of SQL Server:

1. SQL Server on Azure VM

2. Azure SQL Managed Instance

3. Azure SQL Database

4. Azure SQL Edge

In this blog we will see and understand what Azure SQL Database service is, as well as why and when to choose Azure SQL over other SQL Server offerings.

What is Azure SQL database?

Microsoft Azure SQL Database is a cloud-based relational database software as a service (SaaS) service designed to offer better availability, durability, and scalability than on-premises databases. This service is offered by Microsoft Azure Platform which helps to host and use a relational SQL database in the cloud without requiring any hardware or software installation.

What are the features of Azure SQL?

Also, it provides various advanced features to its users and some of them can be listed as the following;

• Long-term backup retention enables us to keep backups for up to 10 years

• Geo-replication provides to create readable secondary databases in different data center locations

• Automatic tuning is an autonomous artificial intelligence-based performance tuning option that fixes the performance problems automatically

• Business continuity

• High-availability

• Scaling database resources feature is the most powerful feature that provides scaling the database resources either up or down

• Automated backups

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