Introduction
Understanding Azure Database Administrator responsibilities, and how they relate to other Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform roles, is important to performing the tasks and duties expected for this function.
In general, cloud services can be broken down into two sets of services: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS).
IaaS services typically consist of virtual machines, storage, and virtual networking components, and are largely managed by the user in terms of patching and software. Alternatively, PaaS services have a larger percentage of management tasks, which are handled by the cloud provider.
Learning objectives
At the end of this module, you will be able to:
- Understand the role of Azure Database Administrator, and other data platform roles
- Describe the key differences between the SQL Server-based database options in Azure
- Describe other features for Azure SQL platforms available