SQL Server on Azure VM documentation

SQL Server on Azure VM

Quickstart

• Create Windows SQL VM (portal)
• Create Windows SQL VM (PowerShell)
• Create Linux SQL VM (portal)

Overview

• What's new?
• What is SQL Server on Windows VMs?
• What is SQL Server on Linux VMs?
• Security considerations
• Performance guidelines
• Pricing guidance

Manage

Concept

• SQL Server IaaS Agent extension
• Manage with Azure portal
• Register with SQL VM resource provider
• Automated patching
• Change license type
• Change edition of SQL Server
• Move to new region
• Integrate with Azure Key Vault

Business continuity

Overview

• High availability & disaster recovery
• Backup and restore
• Availability groups

How-To Guide

• Availability group (Azure CLI)
• Clusterless availability group
• FCI (Storage Spaces Direct)
• FCI (Premium File Share)

Tutorial

• Availability group (manual)

Reference

Deploy

• Azure portal
• Azure CLI
• PowerShell samples

Download

• SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
• Azure Data Studio
• SQL Server Data Tools
• Visual Studio 2019

Reference

• Migration guide
• Transact-SQL (T-SQL)
• Azure CLI
• PowerShell
• REST API