Name: Azure SQL Managed Instance
Rating: 8.8 (8 reviews)
Author: Microsoft

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Demand Planning

Enterprise Asset Management

Enterprise Content Management

Environmental Health and Safety (EHS)

Internal Communications

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Anti-Money Laundering (AML)

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Talent Management

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

Access Gateways

Cloud Storage

Data Center Cooling

Data Center Networking

Fraud Detection

Function as a Service (FaaS)

Graph Database

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

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Network Operating Systems

Network Performance Monitoring

Object Storage

Open-Source Database

Rack Servers

Storage as a Service (STaaS)

Value-Added Resellers (VARs)

Information Technology

A/B Testing

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

Content Management

Email Marketing

Marketing Automation

Social Media Management

Survey & Forms Building

Web Analytics

Marketing

Project Management

Video Conferencing

Professional Services

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Lead Management

Sales Incentive Compensation Management

Trade Promotion Management

Sales

Data-Centric Audit Protection (DCAP)

Database Security

GDPR Compliance

Security

Apparel

Clinical Data Management

Clinical Trial Management

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Lease Management

Online Ordering

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Warranty Management

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Azure SQL Managed Instance is a scalable cloud database service that combines SQL Server database engine compatibility with a fully managed and evergreen platform as a service.

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Ease of building user interfaces

Scalability

Platform management overhead

Workflow engine capability

Platform access control

Services-enabled integration

Development environment creation

Development environment replication

Issue monitoring and notification

Issue recovery

Upgrades and platform fixes

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Ability to build flexible user interfaces using drag-and-drop tools

Ease of scaling up or down to meet demand

Resources required to keep platform up and running

Process automation using rule-based engine

Rules controlling what data different user categories can access

Ability to integrate with cloud applications and data via APIs and pre-built connectors

Ease of creating new development environments

Ease of replicating new development environments

Integrated monitoring and notification of issues and problems

Ease of deployment of major upgrades or problem fixes

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Run our supply chain applications using Azure*SQL developed in micro-services architecture.

executes the queries efficiently
has tools/dashboards to show where the query problems lie
alerting for problems

be able to find situation where it uses a bad query plan due to lack of right stats
auto scale the CPU when load requires it
auto update stats has opportunities in it. so people still have to restart to stopping auto update stats for some situations

it had a positive impact to my business and allowed me to be able to move my workload from on-premise to cloud.

This handles our database instances for web based applications. Azure SQL Instances are a better use of our web based data than any other instance, and we can use it amongst other Microsoft products to create dynamic data driven content for leadership to make quick, decisive decisions that can benefit our customer base.

ease of use with microsoft products
data management
GUI interfacing

hard to use without Microsoft knowledge
Intimidating CLI
Commands are not intuitive

Decision Driven decisions have been quicker
Negatively cumbersome at start when training
Positive use of PaaS services instead of devoting VMs

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Azure SQL Managed Instance

Overview

What is Azure SQL Managed Instance?