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A quick tour of Azure databases - Azure Tutorial
From the course: Azure: Understanding the Big Picture
A quick tour of Azure databases
- [Instructor] Database systems are used to collect, organize, and manage large volumes of data. They are a valuable part of any organization infrastructure. Microsoft Azure offers a variety of database services that are secure, enterprise-grade, and fully managed. There's also support for open-source database engines and self-hosted implementations. We'll explore some of these options. Azure SQL Database is a fully managed database engine. It falls in the platform as a service category. It handles most of the database management functions such as upgrading, patching, backups, and monitoring without user involvement. It's ideal for modern cloud native applications due to its fast provisioning, scalability, and elasticity on the database capacity. Azure SQL database is perfect when you need to store relational database in a transactional system with heavy duty querying capabilities. Azure SQL Database is the fully managed cloud equivalent of the on-premises SQL Server product that has…
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