- Login to Azure Portal and on the top search in portal search for Azure SQL. Select that and Click on “Create Azure SQL resource”.
2. Select for SQL Database for Hyperscale and Serverless Options. We usually use SQL managed instances and SQL Virtual Machines for Migration movements.
Select Resource Type as Single Database for Test, POC or less data. For Production choose Elastic pool.
NOTE : Database Servers are for Creating Database server and then adding databases Instances in it
3. If you want to create a Database server Individually with custom parameters, follow steps 3.1–3.6. Otherwise skip to point 4.
3.1) Select the Resource Group.
3.2) Enter the global unique name as it will be concatenated with .database.windows.net as uniquename.database.windows.net.
3.3) Select Location as per your Feasibility Project location.
3.4) Enter Administrator Name as Password for accessing the databases linked to SQL Server
3.5) To Allow your VM, App services, etc to access your database from Firewall. Select ‘Yes’ to allow Azure Services and resources to access this server.
3.6) Within additional settings, Select “Not Now” if you’re testing and don’t want to enable the Azure Defender for SQL.
4. After Selecting Single-Database.
4.1) Select Subscription and Resource Group.
4.2) Enter Database Name (Global Unique Name not required).
4.3) Select SQL Server from dropdown if already exist is not create new by selecting create new and fill values as per points 3.1–3.4
4.4) Select “Yes” if you want to scale it to SQL Elastic Pool.
4.5) For Compute + Storage —
— 4.5.1) Select Basic if you want to run basic testing with limited 2 GB storage and 5 DTU (Database Transaction Units), we can upscale it later if required.
— 4.5.2) Select Standard if you want to run for development upto 500GB of Max data and 125–4000 DTUs, we can upscale it later if required to Premium Plan.
What are DTUs ? —
DTU describes a performance unit metric for the Azure SQL Database. We can just like the DTU to the horsepower in a car because it directly affects the performance of the database. DTU represents a mixture of the following performance metrics as a single performance unit for Azure SQL Database:
- CPU
- Memory
- Data I/O and Log I/O
5. Configure Network Access to your SQL Server, if you’re creating a new Server then configure “Yes” to allow access to Azure App services. If you’ve chosen the existing one then by default values of SQL Serve will be there which cannot be changed at time of database creation.
6. Protect your data if you’re working with secure Data in Development / Test / Production Environment by enabling Azure Defender. If not Select “Not Now”
7. Customize Additional configuration parameters like collation and maintenance slots. Start with below configuration.
8. Add Custom Tags to easily sort your data while billing and resource-sorting.
9. Review all the Parameters like Estimated cost per month and terms and click on Create to proceed with creation of the Resource.
10. Azure SQL Server & SQL Databases will be created with the respected resource name provided within the Subscription.
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