Azure Storage

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Microsoft Azure offers services for a wide variety of data-related needs, including ones you would expect like file storage and relational databases, but also more specialized services, such as for text searching and time-series data. In this lesson, you will learn which services to choose when implementing a data infrastructure on Azure. Two services that are especially important are Azure SQL Database and Azure Cosmos DB.

Learning Objectives

  • Identify the most appropriate Azure services for various data-related needs

Intended Audience

  • People who want to learn Azure fundamentals

Prerequisites

  • General knowledge of IT architecture, especially databases

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Guy launched his first training website in 1995 and he's been helping people learn IT technologies ever since. He has been a sysadmin, instructor, sales engineer, IT manager, and entrepreneur. In his most recent venture, he founded and led a cloud-based training infrastructure company that provided virtual labs for some of the largest software vendors in the world. Guy’s passion is making complex technology easy to understand. His activities outside of work have included riding an elephant and skydiving (although not at the same time).

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