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What is not supported in Azure SQL Database?
Azure SQL Edge components Specifically, Azure SQL Edge doesn’t support SQL Server components like Analysis Services, Reporting Services, Integration Services, Master Data Services, Machine Learning Services (In-Database), and Machine Learning Server (standalone).
Which of the following T SQL features is supported in SQL Azure?
Security
| Dedicated | Serverless | |
|---|---|---|
| Contained users | Yes. Note: only one Azure AD user can be unrestricted admin | No |
| SQL username/password authentication | Yes | Yes |
| Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication | Yes, Azure AD users | Yes, Azure AD logins and users |
| Storage Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) passthrough authentication | Yes | Yes |
What are SQL Azure capabilities?
SQL Azure is Microsoft’s cloud database service. SQL Azure supports SQL Server’s Transact-SQL (T-SQL) query language, offers built-in support for high availability and fault tolerance and allows for data to be synchronized between on-premises SQL Server and cloud databases.
What is the maximum size of an SQL database?
524,272 terabytes
Database Engine objects
| SQL Server Database Engine object | Maximum sizes/numbers SQL Server (64-bit) |
|---|---|
| Database size | 524,272 terabytes |
| Databases per instance of SQL Server | 32,767 |
| Filegroups per database | 32,767 |
| Filegroups per database for memory-optimized data | 1 |
How many databases can a SQL Server Azure have?
Is there a limit on how many databases Azure Sql Server (PaaS) can have? About SQL Database servers per subscription, default limit is 6, the maximum limit is 150.
Is Azure SQL Database PaaS or SAAS?
Azure SQL Database is a fully managed platform as a service (PaaS) database engine that handles most of the database management functions such as upgrading, patching, backups, and monitoring without user involvement.
What is the difference between SQL Server and SQL database?
Differences between SQL and SQL Server. Type: SQL is a query language. It is used to write queries to retrieve or manipulate the relational database data. On the other hand, SQL Server is a software needed to execute the SQL commands and queries.
What is the difference between SQL and Azure?
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.
Is Azure SQL PaaS or IaaS?
SQL Server on Azure VM falls into the industry category Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and allows you to run SQL Server inside a fully managed virtual machine (VM) in Azure.
Do databases have limits?
Limits exist on several levels in the database. There is usually a hard-coded limit in the database that cannot be exceeded. The value may be further restricted for any given operating system.