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Implementing Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: AZ-303 Exam Prep and Beyond
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Azure SQL Database offers a relational database in the cloud. It uses the last stable SQL Server on-premises database engine. Azure SQL Database can be used for a variety of applications, because it enables you to process both relational data and non-relational structures, such as graphs, JSON, spatial, and XML.
Azure SQL Database offers scalability without causing any downtime for your databases. It offers column-based indexes, which make your queries perform much more quickly.
There is built-in monitoring for your databases and built-in intelligence for increasing the performance of your database automatically, and it provides high availability by providing automatic backups and point-in-time restores. You can also use active geo-replication for global applications.
Azure SQL Database offers the following options for your databases: