What is the difference between SQL Server and Azure?

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Azure SQL Database offers Database-as-a-service (DBaaS-PaaS). With SQL Database, you don't have access to the machines that host your databases. In contrast, Azure Virtual Machine offers Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). Running SQL Server on an Azure VM is similar to running SQL Server in a On-Premise datacenter. 1 апр. 2021 г.

Is Azure an SQL Server?

Azure SQL Database is a fully managed database service, which means that Microsoft operates SQL Server for you, and ensures its availability and performance. SQL Database also includes innovative features to enhance your business continuity, such as built-in high availability.

Is Azure SQL compatible with SQL Server?

Azure fully supports running any edition of SQL Server on IaaS (VM). Combined with 'Always On' availability groups you will be able to achieve full compatibility with legacy on-premises SQL installs.

Which is a key benefit of using Azure SQL Database compared to using SQL Server on-premises?

Key benefit of using Azure SQL database compared to using SQL server on-premises. In terms of performance, one of the key advantages of using Azure SQL database is, High availability, As per Microsoft, it is 99.99% availability service level agreement (SLA).

What is the difference between Azure SQL Database and SQL managed instance?

SQL Managed Instance (SQL MI) provides native Virtual Network (VNet) integration while Azure SQL Database enables restricted Virtual Network (VNet) access using VNet Endpoints. SQL MI helps bridge the gap between Azure SQL Database and On-premises SQL Server due to being built on an instance scoped configuration model.

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