Service Tiers in Azure SQL Database Purchase model

 Goto Azure Home When you create a SQL Database for the first time, you will bump into a required setting: the service tier. The first impression is that a “Service Tier” is related to price, and so the natural urge will be to choose the cheapest one. Resist the urge! A service tier is more than...

Purchasing Model for Azure PAAS SQL Database

 Goto Azure Home Before taking you through Configuring Azure Database, I would like to explain about purchasing model available in Azure to configure database. Azure SQL Database enables you to easily purchase PaaS database engine that fits your performance and cost needs. Depending on the deployment model of Azure SQL Database, you can select the purchasing...

SQL Server Database in Azure

 Goto Azure Home Database Cloud offering as PAAS is one of the giant leap in database world.  There are three ways you can have a SQL Server database as PAAS solution in Azure.                Azure SQL Database                Azure Database in Elastic Pool  ...

Azure Database Services

 Goto Azure Home Before starting about Database Services available in Azure, I would like to brief about the Service models available in Cloud. The Service models available are IAAS, PAAS, SAAS. How do they differ? The below diagram is self-explanatory. IaaS Means - Infrastructure-as-a-Service IaaS provides the infrastructure such as virtual machines and other resources like...

Uploading Files to Azure Datalake Using Powershell

Goto Azure Home In previous Article we have seen how to create Datalake Storage using portal. Now we would see how to create Datalake Storage using Powershell and Upload File from local filesystem to Datalake storage. Refer my Previous Article on Connecting Azure using Powershell to connect to powershell. Click Here Login to Azure Account Login-AzureRmAccount...

Azure DataLake

 Goto Azure Home Azure Data Lake includes all the capabilities required to make it easy for developers, data scientists and analysts to store data of any size, shape and speed, and do all types of processing and analytics across platforms and languages. It removes the complexities of ingesting and storing all of your data while making...

Azure Disks

 Goto Azure Home Azure Disks are nothing but a blob Storage. Azure VHDs that would be used in VM are created in Page Blobs. Azure Disks are designed for 99.999% availability. Azure Disks have consistently delivered enterprise-grade durability, with an industry-leading ZERO% Annualized Failure Rate. The Maximum disk size in an Azure VM can be 4TB....

Storage Explorer Tool to Manage Azure Storage

 Goto Azure Home With Azure Storage Explorer we can easily manage the contents of your storage account with Azure Storage Explorer. Upload, download and manage blobs, files, queues, tables and Cosmos DB entities. Gain easy access to manage your virtual machine disks. Work with either Azure Resource Manager or classic storage accounts, plus manage and configure...

AzCopy Utility to Transfer Data between the Windows Storage and Blob

 Goto Azure Home AzCopy is an Utility to Transfer Data between the Windows\Linux Storage and Blob, Container to Container within same Storage Account and between Separate Storage Account. How to work on the Scenario of Downloading or Uploading files from Azure Storage. We can do the task by using Powershell or thirdparty tools like CloudBerry and...

SQL Server Backups in Azure Blob Storage

 Goto Azure Home In the earlier article we have seen the Configuration storage accounts and Blob storage. Here we would see SQL Server Backups shall be placed in Azure Blob Storage. Backups in Azure is one of the Flexible, High Available  and Cost Effective Solution. Backups can be either used for retention and for Archival Purpose....