
Learn how SQL Server evolved from a relational database to a data platform, covering data stores, data models, integration, and visualization across on-premises and cloud.
Explore square-one foundations of databases, from what a database is and how data is organized to how provisioning SQL Server databases—especially in cloud environments—ensures efficient storage, retrieval, and indexing.
Compare OLTP and OLAP databases: OLTP supports day-to-day operations with highly normalized tables for fast inserts and updates, while OLAP denormalizes data for historical analysis and reporting.
Install SQL Server Management Studio as a separate step in SQL Server 2016 by downloading the SSMS installer and running it as administrator, then connect to your server.
Verify your SQL Server installation using the SQL Server installation center and the installed SQL Server features discovery report, and explore essential management tools like SQL Server Management Studio.
Explore virtualization as the core of cloud computing, and learn how virtual machines, virtual hard disks, and hypervisors enable multi-tenant hardware sharing and provisioning of SQL servers in the cloud.
Provision cloud-based applications by provisioning SQL Server 2016 on Azure and explore distributed application design, scalability, and proximity to users through load balancing.
Discover SaaS in cloud computing, with pay-as-you-go access to cloud-based applications like Gmail and Office 365, while the cloud provider ensures security and availability.
Learn how to obtain an Azure subscription by creating a Microsoft account, selecting a plan, and subscribing to services like virtual machines and SQL databases, with $200 30-day free trial.
Sign up for the free Azure trial, verify identity with a phone 2FA and a credit card, then navigate the Azure portal to manage SQL databases and other services.
Explore how Azure SQL Database, a PaaS single database in the cloud, offers price and performance tiers, sandbox isolation, and management via SSMS and the Azure portal.
Explore elastic pools in Azure to share DTUs across multiple Azure SQL databases on one server, with autoscaling and min/max controls for efficient cloud performance.
Explore how Azure Resource Manager and resource groups group related resources with a common lifecycle, enabling template-based deployments and consolidated access control.
Discover how to provision sql server in Azure BYOL, choosing between a BYOL VM and installing from media via RDP, including sharing a local drive for the ISO.
Configure Azure SQL Server agent based alerts that notify operators or execute jobs, by using SQL Server Management Studio on an Azure virtual machine.
Discover Azure SQL Database security, including access control, authentication, data in transit and at rest protection (TDE and Always Encrypted), and dynamic data masking, auditing, and compliance.
Explore transparent data encryption (TDE) for SQL Server and Azure SQL databases. It encrypts data at rest in real time using a database encryption key and a built-in server certificate.
Explore dynamic data masking in SQL Server, applying database-level masking rules to protect sensitive data for non-privileged users, with default, credit card, email, random, and custom string masks.
Explore strategies for migrating on premise SQL Server databases to Azure, plan for incompatibilities, and leverage Microsoft resources like the Data Migration Assistant to ease cloud migration.
Discover Azure availability sets to boost high availability by distributing virtual machines across update and fault domains, with automatic placement and guidance on creating VMs within a set.
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