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Database Modernization
1. Database Modernization
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Martina Sordakis
Infrastructure & Cloud Consultant
Trivadis AG
2. About me
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• Working for Trivadis for 4 years
• Started as Oracle DBA
• SQL Server Administration
• Infrastructure Concepts in the Azure Cloud
5. Getting your databases a step further…
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• Flexibility of choice
• Choose what you want to manage
• Create hybrid environments
• Handle changing loads
8. SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
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• Run SQL Server inside a Virtual Machine
• Hosted on Microsoft Hardware
• Support all on-premises capabilities
• BYOL or use included licences
• Full administrative rights
• Responsible for configuration and maintenance (Backup, Patching etc.)
• Instances up to 64TB of storage
9. Azure SQL Database
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• Run SQL Server workloads as a service
• Based on Enterprise Edition of SQL Server
• Hardware and software that is owned, hosted, and maintained by Microsoft
• No management of Virtual machines, OS or database software
• No maintenance required
• BYOL or use included licences
10. Azure SQL Database Deployment Options
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SQL Database
(PaaS)
Elastic
Pool
Managed
Instance
Single
database
11. Azure SQL Database
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SQL Database
(PaaS)
Elastic
Pool
Managed
Instance
Single
database
12. Single Database
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• Database is created in a logical server
• Not 100% compatible with on prem SQL Server
• Database of up to 100TB (preview)
• BYOL or use included licences
13. Azure SQL Database
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SQL Database
(PaaS)
Elastic
Pool
Managed
Instance
Single
database
14. Elastic Pool
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• Pool of databases sharing resources
• Minimum and maximum resources set on pool and database base
15. Azure SQL Database
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SQL Database
(PaaS)
Elastic
Pool
Managed
Instance
Single
database
17. SQL Server
compatibility
• Fully-fledged SQL
instance with nearly
100% compat with
on-premise
Fully-managed
service
• Built on the same
infrastructure as
SQL Database
• Provides the same
benefits (PaaS)
Full isolation and
security
• Contained within
your VNet
• Private IP addresses
• Express Route /
VPN connectivity
New pricing
options
• Transparent
• Frictionless
• Competitive
What is Azure managed Instance?
18. What is Azure managed Instance?
* - features coming soon
Built in
Compute & storage provisioned on demand
Fast & online scaling
Full stack updates and patches
Backups with health checks
Point-in-time restore (configurable retention *)
99.99% availability with automatic failover
Disaster recovery with single geo secondary (multiple*)
19. SQL Server
compatibility
• Fully-fledged SQL
instance with nearly
100% compat with
on-premise
Fully-managed
service
• Built on the same
infrastructure as
SQL Database
• Provides the same
benefits (PaaS)
Full isolation and
security
• Contained within
your VNet
• Private IP addresses
• Express Route /
VPN connectivity
New purchasing
options
• Transparent
• Frictionless
• Competitive
What is Azure managed Instance?
20. SQL Server
compatibility
• Fully-fledged SQL
instance with nearly
100% compat with
on-premise
Fully-managed
service
• Built on the same
infrastructure as
SQL Database
• Provides the same
benefits (PaaS)
Full isolation and
security
• Contained within
your VNet
• Private IP addresses
• Express Route /
VPN connectivity
New purchasing
options
• Transparent
• Frictionless
• Competitive
What is Azure managed Instance?
22. Security
* - features coming soon
Threat detection with automatic alerting
Automatic performance tuning*
Monitoring at scale with Intelligent Insights
Vulnerability Assessment
23. SQL Server
compatibility
• Fully-fledged SQL
instance with nearly
100% compat with
on-premise
Fully-managed
service
• Built on the same
infrastructure as
SQL Database
• Provides the same
benefits (PaaS)
Full isolation and
security
• Contained within
your VNet
• Private IP addresses
• Express Route /
VPN connectivity
New purchasing
options
• Transparent
• Frictionless
• Competitive
What is Azure managed Instance?
24. Service tiers
Capability Service tier General Purpose (GA) Business Critical (Public Preview)
Best for Apps with typical availability and
common IO latency requirements
Apps with highest availability and
lowest IO latency requirements.
Compute (vCores) 8, 16, 24, 34, 40, 64, 80 8, 16, 24, 34, 40, 64, 80
HA / Recovery Time Objective Remote storage based / Good Always On AG based / Better
Storage type / size Fast remote (Azure Premium) /
Up to 8 TB
Super-fast local SSD /
Up to 4 TB
25. Pricing
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• Relevant components for charging
• Compute (vCore)
• Storage
• Per GB
• First 32 GB/month are free
• I/Os
• Every 1 million requests