This book, subtitled "High-performance Scalable Solutions for Critical Data Workloads" shows how to deploy, configure, and monitor an Azure SQL Hyperscale database in a production environment. Zoran Barać and Daniel Scott-Raynsford begin by showing Hyperscale helps eliminate many of the problems of traditional high-availability and disaster recovery architecture. They then go on to look at how Hyperscale overcomes storage capacity limitations and issues with scale-up times and costs. The book also covers migrating current workloads from traditional architecture to Azure SQL Hyperscale.

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Author: Zoran Barać and Daniel Scott-Raynsford
Publisher: APress
Date: March 2023
Pages: 488
ISBN: 978-1484292242
Print: 1484292243
Kindle: B0BT4Q229N
Audience: Database users
Level: Intermediate
Category: Data Science

Topics covered:

• Understand the advantages of Hyperscale over traditional architecture
• Deploy a Hyperscale database on the Azure cloud (interactively and with code)
• Configure the advanced features of the Hyperscale database tier
• Monitor and scale database performance to suit your needs
• Back up and restore your Azure SQL Hyperscale databases
• Implement disaster recovery and failover capability
• Compare performance of Hyperscale vs traditional architecture
• Migrate existing databases to the Hyperscale service tier

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