Introduction to SQL Azure

March 31, 2015

John Deardurff Website: http://john.deardurff.comTwitter: @John_DeardurffEmail: John@Deardurff.com

Caching IdentityService

Bus Media CDN

HD Insight/ Big Data

Commerce

Integration Analytics HPC Mobile

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FRAMEWORK

SSERVICES

FABRIC

INFRASTRUCTURE

DB

RELATIONALNON-RELATIONAL

Windows Azure Data Management — Overview

Options for Relational Data Services in the Cloud

Simplified AdministrationFull Control & Flexibility

SQL Server in a Windows Azure Virtual Machine Windows Azure SQL Database

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Options for Relational Data Services in the Cloud

SQL Server in a Windows Azure Virtual Machine Windows Azure SQL Database

Simplified AdministrationFull Control & Flexibility

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SQL Server in a Windows Azure Virtual Machine

No App Changes Required

Familiar Development tools

Library of VM Templates

Full Control of Virtual Machine

Common Identity (Active Directory Integration)

Fully Managed Infrastructure

99.95% SLA for Virtual Machine

Single Pane of Glass to Manage with System Center 2012

High Availability of Database with AlwaysOn Availability Groups

Advanced Security (Transparent data encryption & auditing)

Full Business Intelligence Functionality

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Virtual Machine

OPTION 1 OPTION 2

Non-Virtualized Virtualized

Windows Server Hyper-V VHD

Move Existing AppsSQL Serve in a Windows Azure VM

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SQL Server Data Tools

DEVELOP

On-Prem

DEPLOY

Develop & Test New AppsSQL Serve in a Windows Azure VM

Virtual Machine

TEST

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Hybrid HA & Disaster Recovery

SQL Serve in a Windows Azure VM

SQL Server AlwaysOn Primary, On-premises

On-Prem

APPLICATION

SQL Server AlwaysOn

Secondaries

Windows Azure Virtual Machine

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Integration within SQL Server Management Studio

PowerShell support to manage at scale

Visual Studio to build once and deploy anywhere

Built-in HA secondaries and 99.9% SLA on the database

Reserved capacity for powerful & predictable performance

Dynamic scale out of 1,000s of DBs

Fully managed service (no patching of DB or OS)

Extends familiar SQL Server technology

Relational database engine for transactional integrity

Consistent DB objects; tables, views, stored procedures

Database app portability to and from on-premises

Windows Azure SQL Database

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DB

SQL Database High Availability

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• Automatic HA built-in• One primary node, two online replicas– Writes are replicated to online secondaries

– Transactional integrity maintained with replication

– No database downtime even with Azure system patches

Single LogicalDatabase

Multiple PhysicalReplicas

Primary

Replica 2

Replica 3

SQL Database Scale Out

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Massive ScaleEngage 1000s of nodes within the cluster

10 GB DB 10 GB DB 10 GB DB 10 GB DB 10 GB DB 10 GB DB

10 GB DB 10 GB DB 10 GB DB 10 GB DB 10 GB DB 10 GB DB

100 GB Database

1,000 TPS 10,000 TPS

SQL Database Premium Edition

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Primary Secondary Secondary

Primary Secondary Secondary

Primary Secondary Secondary

Primary Secondary Secondary

Web & Business editions

Premium edition w/ reserved capacity

Customer databases share hardware resourcesWorkload demands vary by customer DB, and by dayUnpredictable performance

Fixed amount of reserved capacity for SQL Database primary and 2 built-in replicasIdeal for business-class applications:

have high peak loadssupport many concurrent requests require low latency

Offered in two sizes for preview: P1 & P2

Business Apps. Scalable & Global.

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Windows Azure SQL Database

Non-relational

data

Data Collection

Relational data

Elastic scale, big data, small data Scale In/Out to

Meet Workload

Transactional Processing

SQL DatabaseAzure Storage

Data Collection

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