Trying to find article or solution page in Azure but I am not successful yet.
The title is pretty much self explanatory. I am looking for a known best practice or solution with steps to follow to run docker with SQL Server in Azure.
I have Docker with SQL Server Express, Docker for Windows, running locally and my expectation is simply deploying this to Azure.
Based on my short experience with Azure, I probably need to set up some Azure service where I can deploy my docker image and run, not sure what that Azure product should be (probably more of Azure Container than Azure SQL)
well, given your requirement of windows containers (why?), you can use either Azure Container Instances (but be mindful of base images they support) or AKS engine. I'd discard webapps.
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I would like to know if there is a native SSRS scale-out solution without having domain services in Azure.
I have tried to run it with Azure load balancer and Azure VM's but it doesn't work without having a domain user.
Going through the docs I see, Configure a Native Mode Report Server Scale-Out Deployment where you can follow steps To plan, install, and configure a scale-out deployment.
Further, you can check out this private article by Paul Stanton: Scaling SSRS Support for SQL Azure with Containers
I have a solution consisting of different small web-services, which right now I can simply build and run each in their own container via docker-compose.
Now, another service will be added, which will need some data access. Since running a mssql server on in a docker container is rather easy and basically consists of one entry in the docker compose, I would like to do the following:
Create a SQL Database project and add it to my solution
Configure the database project, so that it fits the need of the web service
build a containerized SQL-Sever and automatically publish the database schema from my database project
build the web service and connect it up with the containerized SQL server
The goal is, that after running docker-compose, everything should be up and running.
Is this possible as described?
One additional note: The whole thing is just a hobby project, I want to get familiar with docker, APIs and access to databases.
Everyone, I'm looking on a way to deploy updates to our on prem databases using Azure DevOps and I'm running into a roadblock on the release definition. I have my DACPAC ready to go, but not sure how to get that over to my on prem server.
I see the WinRM-SQL Server DB Deployment as a task, but not sure how to set that up. I have seen a couple of videos that use the SQL Server Database Deploy as an option, but it looks like that task has been deprecated, so it looks like I will need to use the WinRM-SQL task. So, could anyone point me in the right direction on how to set this task up to use my local SQL server or possibly a tutorial that help get me started?
You will also have to install a release agent on the target server where you will be deploying the database, assign it to a Deployment Group, create your release pipeline template and then run a release. I wrote a blog post about how to deploy a database to an on-prem SQL Server by leveraging Azure DevOps: https://jpvelasco.com/deploying-a-sql-server-database-onto-an-on-prem-server-using-azure-devops/
Hope this helps.
If you already created a Deployment Group, within your Pipeline:
Click to Add a new stage: [1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/vc5TI.png
On the right side, (SELECT A TEMPLATE screen) type SQL in the search box
Select: IIS website and SQL database deployment, this will add a Stage with Two tasks: IIS deployment and SQL DB Deploy.
Delete the IIS Deployment Task
Configure the SQL DB Deploy task - It does not say it is deprecated.
The solution consists of an SQL Database and desktop application working hard with that DB. DB Deployed as Azure SQL Database, application running on Azure Virtual Machine with Windows Server onboard. What is the deployment guidelines for this two services in Azure? I want to achieve max performance. Should they both be located in same resource group?
You will need to get your app and the database located as close as possible so yes the same resource group.
Make sure you do not have Mars enabled (MultipleActiveResultSets in connection string).
Make sure you do use connection pooling.
Read this to understand what you are dealing with:
https://www.simple-talk.com/sql/learn-sql-server/improving-the-quality-of-sql-server-database-connections-in-the-cloud/
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I have a simple ms sql 2012 express database & a simple VB Express 2010 application as its front end.
Can I simply host my MS SQL database on Azure & update the application to interrogate the hosted database? This would mean, the application would still be local, but the DB would be hosted. My offices are distributed & if we could do this it would save quite a bit of hassle.
Do I need to use a virtual machine, cloud services or straight hosting? Its difficult for me to understand the subtleties each service.
I've had a look at the azure services information and the documentation is pitched a little high for me. I just wanted to know if this is relatively simple thing to do & if anyone has has any pointers to How To's or Noob guides to azure.
It's absolutely possible and in fact, super easy to set up.
Check out this simple step-by-step instruction on how to set up SQL Server DB on Windows Azure - https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/net/common-tasks/sql-azure-management/
You can even connect to it from your SQL Server Management Studio just like you would connect to a local database or a database on your network.
Ideally - yes, you can change the connection string used by the VB desktop app to reference the Windows Azure SQL Database instance instead of the local database. That said, SQL Database is not 100% compatible with SQL Server. Be sure to check out the differences at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/ff394115.aspx
Can I simply host my MS SQL database on Azure & update the application
to interrogate the hosted database?
Yes, your SQL Azure database is accessible via a connection string, but you have to make sure that you create a firewall rule in SQL Azure to allow your locally hosted or remotely hosted applications to access the database. Everything is turned off by default.
Do I need to use a virtual machine, cloud services or straight
hosting?
I'm not exactly sure what you're asking here, but a VM may be overkill, as that gives you basically a place to host a VM in Azure. You control the O/S, patching, etc. A cloud service (a web or worker role) is a little less maintenance heavy as the O/S, patches, updates, etc. are maintained by Azure and you just worry about your application. Straight hosting - are you talking about hosting on 1&1 or GoDaddy or something? If so, that's really no different than your VB app running locally and accessing your Azure database. For this option, just make sure you have your firewall rules set properly, otherwise you won't be able to access the database.
Hopefully this helps. Good luck!
Azure has some specific requirements that need to be met (like every table has to have a Clustered Index), and it does not support some functionality that is available on "normal" SQL Server (like replication, FILESTREAM data, or data compression).
Other than that, as long as your app meets the requirements, there should not be a reason for it not to work on Azure. The majority of the functionality not supported by Azure is most likely out6 of the scope of what a "noob" would implement, so you probably are safe.
However, Azure might be overly expensive for your needs. It might be cheaper to go for hosting the database somewhere. This would mean you would only have to change the connection string of the application to point to the new database server (though there could be additional limitations imposed by your hosting provider).
Good luck with whichever option you end up taking!