GETTING STARTED WITH AZURE SQL DB Warner Chaves SQL MCM / MVP SQLTurbo.com Pythian.com

Bio SQL Server DBA for 10 years. Previously an L3 DBA at HP, now a Principal Consultant at Pythian in Ottawa Ontario. SQL Server MCM and MVP. Blog: sqlturbo.com Company site: pythian.com

Agenda GOAL: provide an introduction and overview of the Azure SQL Database service. We’ll cover:  How to sign up.  Navigating the portal.  The different service levels.  New features coming cloud first.

Signing up! Go here: You’ll need to put in your info but you won’t get charged until after the trial month if you don’t cancel.

What is it? The SQL database as a service offering on Azure (OLTP). Fully managed by MS as part of Azure. It’s not a full instance. Many features that you’re used to don’t exist because it’s fully managed. Used to be 2 size based tiers, now it’s 3 Service Level based tiers.

Before and After BASIC S0S1S2S3 P1P2P3 Before: Web and Business. Based purely on size. Now: 3 service tiers and sub tiers.

Basic Size Limit: 2GB. Point-in-time Restore: 7 days. DR: Geo-Restore to another Azure region. Auditing allowed. Performance: 5 DTU.

Standard Size Limit: 250GB. Point-in-time Restore: 14 days. DR: Geo-Restore, Standard Geo-replication. Auditing allowed. Performance: DTU. S010 DTU S120 DTU S250 DTU S3100 DTU

Premium Size Limit: 500GB. Point-in-time Restore: 35 days. DR: Geo-Restore, Standard or Active Geo-replication. Partitioning. Columnstores. Auditing allowed. Performance: DTU. P1100 DTU P2200 DTU P31000 DTU

Standard vs Active Geo-Replication Standard RTO < 2h RPO < 30m Active RTO < 1h RPO < 5m Active provides failover control. Active provides up to 4 read-only replicas.

Official Pricing List For the official published price please check: database/ database/ The price can change depending on your specific agreements with Microsoft.

Demo: Walkthrough Azure Portal and SSMS experience

Demo: Point-in-Time Restore

DTU? Database throughput unit. A comparison unit of integrated database performance. Blend of CPU + Data IO + Log IO + Memory. Based on an internal OLTP benchmark from the Azure team.

Tier DTUs TierDTUMax ThreadsMax Sessions Benchmark Throughput Basic trx/hour S trx/min S trx/min S trx/min P trx/sec P trx/sec P trx/sec

Demo: Basic vs S1 comparison

Cloud-first MS is now deploying features on Azure SQL that are NOT in the “box” version of SQL Server:  Dynamic Data Masking.  Row-Level Security.  ALTER COLUMN ONLINE.  TRUNCATE PARTITION.  Upcoming: SQL Query Store.

Demo: Dynamic Data Masking

QA?