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Azure SQL is a package of amazingly managed, intelligent, and secure products that can use the Azure Cloud SQL Server database engine. These products of Azure SQL are as discussed below:

Azure SQL Database – The SQL database in Azure is used to support the modern cloud applications on a database service that is fully managed and intelligent as well.

SQL Server on Azure VMs – It is used for the easy lift and shift of your SQL Server work, and also it maintains the compatibility with SQL Server and the access at the operating system level.

Azure SQL Managed Instance – It is best used to modernize the existing Azure SQL server applications. It does that at a level with some fully managed instances and with full feature parity. Azure SQL servers make migrations to the cloud streamlined.

Azure SQL is built upon a SQL Server engine. Any user can smoothly migrate the applications and continue working with the different tools, resources, and languages suitable. With your experience and skills transferring to the cloud, you can work more efficiently than before.

If you are running a business, you should learn how every product fits the Azure SQL platform to match the right options. This article is going to help you that which approach is best for you in any case. First, we will discuss the products mentioned above of Azure SQL in detail.

Azure SQL Database

This database is a relational database know as DBaaS means database-as-a-service. It is hosted in Azure and falls in the category of PaaS means Platform-as-a-Service. This is the best product for modern cloud applications that use the latest server features, and they also have time constraints in the marketing and development fields.

The SQL database Azure is a completely managed server database engine based on the Azure Enterprise edition with SQL Server. It has a couple of deployment options created on standard software and hardware maintained and hosted by Microsoft.

The two deployment options offered by the SQL database in Azure are:

Single Database – As a single database, it has its own set of resources managed by the Azure SQL server. It is somehow similar to the database in the SQL server. This option is made for the development of modern applications. Available options are serverless and hyper-scale.

Elastic Pool – the elastic pool is a collection of different databases with a shared set of resources. The SQL server also manages these databases. This option is also made for the development of modern applications using the SaaS application pattern. This option is known for providing cost-effective solutions to manage the performances of more than one database with variant patterns.

When using Azure SQL Server, a user can use different built-in functions, and features and those features require some extensive level of configuration. With SQL Database Azure, you stay out of any interruption because of having a pay as you go options. It also comes with some additional features, not SQL Server Azure, like intelligence, availability, and management.

SQL Server on Azure VMs

As we discussed above, this product comes in the category of Infrastructure-as-a-Serve (IaaS) and allows users to run the SQL Server Azure in a managed VM means virtual machine in SQL Azure.

It is the best product for applications and migrations that require operation system-level access. The SQL VMs are ready for lifting and shifting for the applications, and t requires fast migration to the cloud with no changes or slight changes. These machines offer administrative controls for SQL Server Azure instances and the operating system for the migration process.

When a user is not interested in buying on-premises SQL Azure Server hardware, the virtual machines offer standard hardware that Microsoft owns. You can also resume or stop the devices when you do not need them.

This product is also developed for migrating the existing apps to Azure. It also allows the users to use the SQL server in a VM to build and test SQL Server applications. SQL VMs give you full administrative rights for SQL Server instant and cloud-based VMs. These abilities allow a user to develop a personalized system for addressing any application's performance and requirements.

Azure SQL Managed Instance

This product comes in the category of PaaS, which is Platform-as-a-Service. This product is best for many migrations to the cloud. SQL Azure Managed Instance is a set of user and system databases with many shared resources.

SQL Managed Instance is best for new and existing applications that want to use the SQL Server features and are migrated to the cloud with slight changes. This product also supports the migration of a database from on-premises with relatively less or no modifications. It provides all the benefits of PaaS of the database and adds the available capabilities in SQL Server VMs. The SQL Managed instance instances offer full access to SQL Server, and its features are compatible with migrating the servers to Azure.

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Azure is Managed and Up-to-Date Automatically

Azure is the only cloud service that comes with evergreen SQL, and it automatically applies the latest updates or patches for keeping the databases up to date. This is why Azure is considered an always up-to-date platform. It spends more time innovating the system for better services. Many complex tasks like high availability, backup, and performances are automatically tuned, and it gives a user more time to focus on the applications.

Azure is one of the most intelligent and efficient cloud services. It has multiple products that help in automating the applications for the users. Azure continually monitors the data and prevents any threats. Azure SQL offers an easy and quick way of accessing the Azure portal's resources and different databases. Azure SQL is not a service, but it is a SQL package related to all kinds of services.