DataHow to support growth and innovate faster with Azure data services

Topics

SQL Server

Platform as a Service

Storage

Identity

Balance of responsibility Balance of control and responsibility depends on the category of the serviceIaaS - BuildBuilding blocks, create your own solution or apps from scratch

PaaS – DeployExisting services are a starting point, with additional configuration for a custom fit

SaaS - BuyUse immediately with minimal configuration

Responsibility On-Prem

IaaS PaaS SaaS

Applications

Data

Runtime

Middleware

O/S

Virtualization

Servers

Storage

Networking

MicrosoftCustomer

Azure SQL Database

Azure SQL DatabaseThe developer’s intelligent cloud database

Scaleson the fly

Learns & adapts

Works in your environment

Secures & protects

Redefines multi-tenancy

Purchasing Models

DTUs (Basic, Standard and Premium)

vCores (Gen4 and Gen5)

DTU ModelTIER Basic Standard Premium

Maximum storage size 2 GB 1 TB 4 TB

Maximum DTUs 5 3000 4000

Target workload Development and production

Development and production

Development and production

Uptime SLA 99.99% 99.99% 99.99%

Backup retention 7 days 35 days 35 days

CPU Low Low, Medium, High Medium, High

IO throughput Low Medium Order of magnitude higher than Standard

IO latency Higher than Premium Higher than Premium Lower than Basic and Standard

Columnstore indexing and in-memory OLTP

N/A N/A Supported

vCore ModelTIER Gen4 Gen5 Gen4 (Hyperscale or

Business Critical)Gen5 (Hyperscale or

Business Critical)

Maximum storage size 4 TB 4 TB 100/1 TB 100/4 TB

Maximum vCores 24 80 24 80

Target workload Development and production

Development and production

Development and production

Development and production

Uptime SLA 99.99% 99.99% 99.99% 99.99%

Backup retention 35 days 35 days 35 days 35 days

CPU Medium High Medium High

IO throughput Low Low Very High Highest

IO latency Low Low Low Low

Columnstore indexing and in-memory OLTP

Supported Supported N/A Supported

Hyperscale (Preview)

Rapid storage growth

Nearly instantaneous backups and fast restores

Quicker performance

Rapid scale out and scale up

Demo: Azure SQL Database

Azure SQL Elastic Pools

Flexible pool of resources

Accommodating to peaks and troughs

eDTU and vCore

Demo: Elastic Pools

Based on the latest SQL engine

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No SSIS, SSRS or SSAS

No SQL Server Agent

Cost-effective & independently scalable

Feature comparison - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-database/sql-database-features

Elastic Queries

Elastic Job Agents

Azure Functions

Data Factory V2 SSIS Integration Runtime

Data Factory Copy Data

Power BI

Analysis Services

Demo: Data Factory

SQL Managed Instances

Near 100% Compatibility

Cross-Database Queries

No SSIS, SSRS or SSAS

SQL Server Agent

Migration tools and Database Migration Service

SQL Managed Instances

SQL Server on a VM

Options

SQL Server on a VM

Azure SQL Database

SQL Managed Instances

Reserved Instances and Capacity

1 and 3 year commitment, up to 72% savings

Virtual machines Compute Software

Azure SQL Database Gen 4 and 5 Single Database and Elastic Pool General Purpose and Business Critical

Other options

Azure Tables Azure Databases for PostgreSQL

Cosmos DB Azure Databases for

MySQL

Azure Storage

Blob

File

Table

Queue

Azure Storage Flexibility

Large storage limits

20K IOPS

High ingress and egress limits

Unlimited blob containers, blobs, file shares, files, tables, queues, entities, and messages

Easy Access

Encrypted at rest

Identity

Managed Identity

Keys, Secrets and Certificates

Logging

Versioning

Azure DevOps Integration

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/resources/samples/app-service-msi-keyvault-dotnet/

Demo: Key Vault

Recap

SQL Server

Platform as a Service

Storage

Identity

Learn. Innovate. Grow.