Azure SQL Pricing Models

• Azure Reservations: Azure Reservations are provided for various services where the commitment for using the service is 1 year or 3 years
• Pricing Models
  • DTU (Database Tranasaction Unit)
  • vCore
  • Serverless
• DTU Refer Here
  • In DTU we have 3 service tiers
    • Basic
    • Standard
    • Premium
• vCore: This Kind of databases use vCore rather than DTU
  • Service Tiers:
    • General Purpose
    • Business Critical
    • Hyperscale
  • Compute Tier:
    • Provisioned
    • Serverless: Per second billing of compute according to usage
• When to use which Pricing Model and Service Tier
  • Developer database: DTU based Basic models should suffice
  • Dev/QA environments: In these cases using elastic pool is recommened
    • DTU Based Standard
    • vCore Based General Purpose
  • Production Environments:
    • Traditional Web application: vCore Based Business Critical
    • Microservices: General Purpose
    • Datawarehouses and Analytics:
      • HyperScale in vCore
      • Premium in DTU Model
    • Non-Critical databases in Production where the usage is not measured: Use Serverless

Activity: Create a serverless database

• As shown in the class, Create a serverless database
• Data Management:
  • Creating Replicas
    
• Resizing
  
  
  

Service Comparision of Azure SQL

• Refer Here

• SQL Server Variants in Azure
  • Azure SQL Database:
    • Core database functionality
    • Using most recent version of SQL Server
  • Azure SQL Managed Instances:
    • This will be equivalent to running SQL Server with features not supported by Azure SQL enabled. (roughly equivalent to SQL Server Installed in your on-prem)
  • Azure SQL on VMs: SQL server on virtual machines with more administrative efforts compared to Azure SQL Database and less compared to the onprem -db