Azure SQL Database PaaS

- Instead of just hosting and maintaining the physical resources required by your databases like with a virtual machine, Azure can also maintain the database platforms software itself. The SQL server offering in the platform as a service category is called, Azure SQL database. With a virtual machine, the Azure service takes care of providing the data center, networking and compute and storage resources needed to keep the machine running and healthy. When you move to a PaaS solution, Azure will also manage all aspects of the operating system and the RDBMS for you as well. This allows you to focus all of your resources on what happens inside of the database engine, including developing the databases structure, connecting the database to your applications and filling it with data. To deploy an Azure SQL database, there are a couple of options. First, is a single database, and that's exactly what it sounds like. One database configured to meet your needs of your application. If you need…