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

2. 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. Twitter: @warchav Email: warner@sqlturbo.com Blog: sqlturbo.com Company site: pythian.com

3. 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.

4. Signing up! Go here: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/free-trial/ You’ll need to put in your info but you won’t get charged until after the trial month if you don’t cancel.

5. 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.

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

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

8. Standard Size Limit: 250GB. Point-in-time Restore: 14 days. DR: Geo-Restore, Standard Geo-replication. Auditing allowed. Performance: 10-20-50-100 DTU. S010 DTU S120 DTU S250 DTU S3100 DTU

9. Premium Size Limit: 500GB. Point-in-time Restore: 35 days. DR: Geo-Restore, Standard or Active Geo-replication. Partitioning. Columnstores. Auditing allowed. Performance: 100-200-1000 DTU. P1100 DTU P2200 DTU P31000 DTU

10. 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.

11. Official Pricing List For the official published price please check: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/sql- database/ http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/sql- database/ The price can change depending on your specific agreements with Microsoft.

12. Demo: Walkthrough Azure Portal and SSMS experience

13. Demo: Point-in-Time Restore

14. 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.

15. Tier DTUs TierDTUMax ThreadsMax Sessions Benchmark Throughput Basic53030016600 trx/hour S01060600521 trx/min S12090900934 trx/min S25012012002570 trx/min P11002002400105 trx/sec P22004004800228 trx/sec P31000160019200735 trx/sec

16. Demo: Basic vs S1 comparison

17. 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.

18. Demo: Dynamic Data Masking

19. QA?