Azure SQL Database
Lori Clark
SQL Saturday
10/17/2015
Reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Common IT Challenges
Open and
Flexible
Aging
Server
Hardware
Rising
Datacenter
Costs
Support
Demands of IT
Staff
Unmatched
Productivity
Works with
Existing IT
How can Azure help administrators with these
common IT challengesMicrosoft
and reduce TCO?
Azure
Built to
Protect Your
Data
Economical
Scalable
Relational Database Cloud Continuum
Azure SQL Database (PaaS)
 Relational database built on the same bits as SQL Server
 Predictable performance through Service Tiers and Performance Levels
 Near-zero maintenance through automatic software patching
 99.99%* Microsoft-backed SLA
 Integration with Azure Active Directory (Windows Authentication)**
 Efficient DevOps
 Robust Business Continuity and data protection options
*Applies to Basic, Standard, and Premium Service tiers
**Preview feature
Azure SQL
Database
Azure SQL Database Editions
Azure SQL Database Business Continuity and Data Protection
Point-intime
Restore
3 Built-in
Replicas
GeoReplication
AAD
Integration
Auditing
Row-level
Security
Automatic
Backups
Import
and
Export
Database
Copy
TDE
GeoRestore
Restore
Deleted
Databases
Row-Level Security
Restricts row-level access based on a user’s identity, role, or execution context, moves
access restriction logic from app tier into database
*Block predicates are in Preview
Row-level
security
within
Contractor Departmental
database
ID
Data
Application
restricted
query
10164
…
22709
…
49811
Application…
Tier
…
Power
application
w/o query
restrictions
Elastic Database Pools
• Collection of elastic database throughput units (eDTUs) and storage shared
between multiple databases
• Script elastic jobs to implement maintenance tasks and changes across
pools
• If sum of DTUs for single databases > 1.5x eDTUs needed for pool, pool is
more cost effective
Elastic Database Query
• Unifies both vertical (cross-database queries) and horizontal partitioning
(sharding)
• Supports cross-database queries to access remote tables and connect to
data sources such as Excel and Power BI
• Available in Standard and Premium Performance Tiers
*Preview Feature
Deploy Database Wizard
 Easily deploy existing on-premises
database to a SQL Server VM in
Azure or to Azure SQL Database
 Rapidly create test/dev databases
from production databases
 Deploy an Azure-based DR solution
in a geographically redundant
location