Moving Your SQL Database to SQL Azure And Setting up Data Sync SQL Saturday #200 Moving Your SQL Database to SQL Azure And Setting up Data Sync

Agenda Who Am I? What is Windows Azure SQL Database Concepts Architecture Supported vs. Non Supported Features Demo

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Everything as a Service Infrastructure As a Service Platform As a Service Software As a Service Uses VMs Consumer manages, patches and monitors machines Full Compatibility with SQL Server on-premise Minimal changes to existing apps Provides APIs Building Block Services Provider manages VMs and patches Requires a migration of apps Great opportunity for scalability Web Front End to Software Multi-Tenant Logical Separation of data Very little customisation Commodity End Users Devs ITPros

Windows Azure SQL Database The first and only true relational database as a service Self-managed Elastic Scale Developer Agility Easy provisioning and deployment Auto high-availability and fault tolerance Self-maintaining infrastructure; self-healing No need for server or VM administration Database utility; pay as you grow Flexible load balancing Business-ready SLAs Enable multi-tenant solutions World-wide presence Build cloud-based database solutions on consistent relational model Leverage existing skills through existing ecosystem of developer and management tools Explore new data application patterns

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Service Provisioning Model Account Each account has zero or more servers Azure wide, provisioned via a common portal Establishes a billing instrument The servers are logical, not tied to physical machines Each server has one or more databases Logical concept equal to a master DB Contains metadata about database & usage Unit of authentication, geo-location, billing, reporting Generated DNS-based name Each database has standard SQL objects Users, Tables, Views, Indices, etc Unit of consistency Server Database It is important to clarify that logical servers are not tied to physical machines, meaning the logical server is really just a unit of organization (you have a logical master database with data for the databases on the “logical server”).  

Database Replicas and Failover ! Single Database Three Replicas Replica 1 Single Primary Replica 2 DB Replica 3 This slide shows what happens when a primary fails. Clarify that there are a bunch of primary / secondaries on each machine (other databases on the cluster). Replica 4

Database Editions Two SQL Database SKUs: Web & Business You specify Web or Business Edition Web: EDITION = Web Business: EDITION = Business You specify MAXSIZE Web: MAXSIZE = 1GB| 5GB Business: MAXSIZE = 10GB | 20GB | 30GB | 40GB | 50GB | 100GB | 150GB This is the size we will not let you grow beyond You will be charged for the actual (peak) size (in any one day) Business Edition Up to 150 GB Web Edition Up to 5 GB

Windows Azure SQL Database Security Supports SQL Server Security On-premise SQL Server security concepts still apply Server-level: sds_dbcreator, sds_securityadmin roles Database-level: same as on-premise SQL Server Administrative user is equivalent to sa

T-SQL Support (full or partial) Constants Constraints Cursors Index management and rebuilding indexes Local temporary tables Reserved keywords Stored procedures Statistics management Transactions Triggers Tables, joins, and table variables Transact-SQL language elements such as Create/drop databases Create/alter/drop tables Create/alter/drop users and logins … User-defined functions Views

T-SQL Not Supported Common Language Runtime (CLR) Database file placement Database mirroring Distributed queries Distributed transactions Filegroup management Full Text Search Global temporary tables SQL Server configuration options SQL Server Service Broker System tables Trace Flags

Moving Your Data SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) Data Tier Application BCP (bulk copy) Support Data Sync

SQL Data Sync Preview Mode on the Windows Azure Portal Moves Data On Demand or Scheduled Build Sync Groups – Define Hub and Client

SQL Data Sync Supported Data Types   Data Type Category Supported SQL Database Data Type Exact Numbers Supported: bit, decimal, int, numeric, smallint, tinyint. Approximate Numbers Supported: float, real. Date and Time Supported: date, datetime2, datetime, datetimeoffset, time. Character Strings Supported: char, varchar, text. Unicode Character Strings Supported: nchar, nvarchar, ntext. Binary Strings Supported: binary*, varbinary*, image.  See Unsupported Data Types: binary(50) and varbinary(5) are not supported. Spatial Data Types Supported: geography, geometry. Other Data Types Supported: sql_variant, table, uniqueidentifier, xml.

SQL Data Sync Unsupported Data Types   Data Type Category Unsupported Data Type Exact Numbers Not supported: money, smallmoney. Binary Strings Not supported: binary(50), varbinary(5). Date and Time Not supported: smalldatetime. FileStream Not supported. CLR UDT SQL UDT XML Data Types Not supported: XmlSchemaCollection. Other Data Types Not supported: cursor, timestamp, hierarchyid.

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