www.pythian.com | White Paper 1 INTRODUCTION TO AZURE SQL DATABASE SERVICES Microsoft’s SQL Server has been a go-to on-prem database solution for decades, having been Microsoft’s first foray into the enterprise database market. Since its debut, the company has released updated versions of the product almost yearly– starting with 1.0 in 1989 through to version 15.0 in 2019–as it competes for market share against other enterprise database offerings. But the database game changed about a decade ago when Microsoft released its first cloud-based Azure SQL Database (DB). Companies previously chained to server rooms and bare metal could now reap the benefits of cloud while still using SQL Server technology and T-SQL code to which they’d become accustomed: a win-win. No two Azure SQL DBs

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