Generating output to a Azure SQL database is supported, but I was shocked when I found that the portal does not allow to specify a SQL Server database running on a VM. Is not this supported?
We need to store lots of data coming through the ASA jobs, and use SQL Jobs, that's why we were planning to use a SQL Server VM.
Thanks!
You cannot configure the SQL Database running on VM as an output to the ASA job.
However, Azure provides SQL services with 2 variants
Microsoft Azure SQL Database (Azure SQL Database) as PaaS
where lower stack is managed by Microsoft Azure and billed as pay-as-you-go model.
and
SQL Server in Azure Virtual Machine (VM) as IaaS where user owns the VM and make any changes, including licences for the SQL database.
the Microsoft Azure SQL Database provided as PaaS is configurable as
ASA output.
one idea might be to create and Event Hub output for the ASA and then consume it from there using any sort of application to write into an IaaS SQL DB. The application that consumes the data can also be hosted as a Web App as well.
Hope this helps.
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I am new to Azure SQL Server.
We have SQL Server database in Azure. We are stopping the Azure subscription as the web application that uses the Azure SQL database has been terminated.
We need to download/transfer the web application data from Azure SQL Server to our local storage.
Will it cost us to download/transfer/export the data present in Azure SQL Server database?
Yes, outbound data transfer costs but it is usually quite minimal.
Here is the pricing page: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/bandwidth/.
It'll depend slightly on your region, but the first 5 GB are free each month.
We are looking at options for moving our on premise SQL Server(s) to Azure and trying to understand whether we will be able to run cross database queries should we have data residing across multiple database technologies both in Azure ( specifically Azure Managed Instance, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure SQL Database), and in an on-premise SQL Server instance.
We cannot find much information anywhere on whether these are supported and would appreciate if any of ye could help in filling out the table below:
TO->
Azure SQL DB
Azure Managed Instance
Azure Synapse Analytics
On Premise SQL Server
Azure SQL DB
Supported through Elastic Search Query (Ref: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/querying-remote-databases-in-azure-sql-db/)
?
Azure Data Share supports sharing of both tables and views from Azure SQL Database and Azure Synapse Analytics (formerly Azure SQL DW), and sharing of tables from Azure Synapse Analytics (workspace) dedicated SQL pool. Sharing from Azure Synapse Analytics (workspace) serverless SQL pool is not currently supported. (Ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-share/how-to-share-from-sql)
Azure SQL database doesn't support the linked server property so you wont be able to access on prem tables in Azure SQL database and the elastic query in Azure SQL database is to query tables between 2 Azure SQL databases and not On prem. (Ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/289105/how-can-i-query-on-premise-sql-server-database-fro.html)
Azure Managed Instance
?
?
?
Available through the use of Linked Servers (Ref: http://thewindowsupdate.com/2019/03/22/lesson-learned-81-how-to-create-a-linked-server-from-azure-sql-managed-instance-to-sql-server-onpremise-or-azure-vm/)
Azure Synapse Analytics
?
?
?
?
On Premise SQL Server
?
?
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Using a linked server you can query data in an Azure SQL database from an on premised SQL Server (Ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/289105/how-can-i-query-on-premise-sql-server-database-fro.html)
Azure SQL database need elastic query to achieve cross database query. It doesn't support create linked server.
Azure Managed instance has almost same feature with on-premise SQL server, you could use USE statement to execute cross database query. It's same with local SQL Server.
Azure Synapse Analytics also doesn't support cross database query.
Per my knowledge and experiense, I will put ✔ or X in table to express support or not supported. please ref:
TO->
Azure SQL DB
Azure Managed Instance
Azure Synapse Analytics
On Premise SQL Server
Azure SQL DB
Supported through Elastic Search Query (Ref: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/querying-remote-databases-in-azure-sql-db/)
X, not supported
Azure Data Share supports sharing of both tables and views from Azure SQL Database and Azure Synapse Analytics (formerly Azure SQL DW), and sharing of tables from Azure Synapse Analytics (workspace) dedicated SQL pool. Sharing from Azure Synapse Analytics (workspace) serverless SQL pool is not currently supported. (Ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-share/how-to-share-from-sql)
Azure SQL database doesn't support the linked server property so you wont be able to access on prem tables in Azure SQL database and the elastic query in Azure SQL database is to query tables between 2 Azure SQL databases and not On prem. (Ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/289105/how-can-i-query-on-premise-sql-server-database-fro.html)
Azure Managed Instance
X, not supported
✔,same with local SQL Server
X, not supported
Available through the use of Linked Servers (Ref: http://thewindowsupdate.com/2019/03/22/lesson-learned-81-how-to-create-a-linked-server-from-azure-sql-managed-instance-to-sql-server-onpremise-or-azure-vm/)
Azure Synapse Analytics
Azure Data Share
X, not supported
X, not supported
X, not supported
On Premise SQL Server
✔,linked server
✔,linked server
X, not supported
Using a linked server you can query data in an Azure SQL database from an on premised SQL Server (Ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/289105/how-can-i-query-on-premise-sql-server-database-fro.html)
Please choose the suitable Azure database version according your request.
HTH.
AFAIK there is no cross-DB facade that provides a single interface to talk to multiple Databases at the same time. Be it on-prem/in-cloud or SQL-Server/Synapse/MySQL/...
There are individual ways and means by which you can access a single Database from somewhere/anywhere. E.g. accessing an on-prem DB from code in cloud or access a cloud DB from code running on on-prem "servers". List of interfaces available is specific to each "source" and "target" combination.
I came across one issue that I cannot create SSRS databases on Azure SQL Database, netiher I can use the migrated databases of report server in the SSRS Config manager, can anyone explain why is this a limitation and something like Managed Instance or Azure SQL VM is needed in this case?
Is there no other way of configuring Azure SQL Database with SSRS?
Azure SQL database didn't explain why SSRS is not supported in Azure SQL database.
I think the reason the that Azure SQL database is PAAS and different between IAAS: Azure MI and SQL server in VMS:
And for now, there is no way to configure SSRS for Azure SQL database. SQL database product team confirmed this. Ref this feedback:
"Thanks for your feedback here. You can do SSRS today in an Azure VM.
I’m closing this as we have no plans in SQL DB to significantly grow
it’s scope to SSRS."
If you still want to SSRS, you need to choose Azure SQL managed instance or SQL Server in VMs.
HTH.
I think that you can pick a Azure Virtual Machine and then get things done by yourself, from scratch.
Or you can create RDLC and run them inside a web application, using Azure Database as data source.
In Azure PAAS , When I create a SQL Database , it asks me to create a SQL Server why is this? Also as there are elastic pools why need a SQL Server?
Azure SQL Database and SQL Server PAAS - why need both?
Before answer this, let's see what is an Azure SQL logical server.For more information about Azure SQL logical server, please refer to this tutorial.
A logical server acts as a central administrative point for multiple single or pooled databases, logins, firewall rules, auditing rules, threat detection policies, and failover groups. A logical server can be in a different region than its resource group. The logical server must exist before you can create the Azure SQL database. All databases on a server are created within the same region as the logical server.
So the Azure SQL server is the dependency of the azure database. If you want to create an Azure sql database, an existing Azure SQL server is required. It is similar to a SQL Server instance that you may be familiar with in the on-premises world.
I have a "pay as you go" Azure subscription. I am trying to keep costs down.... Do I need the resource "SQL Server" when using the SQL database resource? As I read all the supporting documents SQL Server will be used on Azure VMs to extend on-premises SQL Server. I am not doing this, I am hosting a web application on the Cloud services (Classic) resource that is connecting to the Azure SQL database.
Thanks for the help!
Azure SQL Database gives you most of the functionalities of a "Standard" SQL Server database and is (in most cases) the choise with the lower costs.
It also provides you a set of additional functionalities (some of them needs to be enabled first or are part of the higher service tiers) like an out of the box 3-node failover cluster, geo-redundancy, automated backups, etc.
If you need additional SQL Server features like SQL Server Analysis Services, which are not part of Azure SQL DB or aren't provided as another Azure service, you need to create a Virtual Maschine with a real SQL Server installed.
The "SQL Server", which is hosting your Azure SQL DB, is just a wrapper and provides you only minimal features like user and role management or your firewall settings.
If your application is connecting only to Azure SQL database and using its features, you don't need SQL Server license. You just need to have the Azure subscription and pay for the SQL database(s) that you are using. However when you create an Azure SQL database, it will prompt you to create a "Server" resource which acts as a logical group for all of your SQL databases that you create within that "server". This server is NOT charged separately and just provides a logical grouping as well as a common connection point for your SQL databases. Your billing is always based on the SQL Database(s) that you create and use.
hope this helps.
Srini Acharya