Getting started with Azure Database for PostgreSQL

This article will get you started with Azure Database for PostgreSQL and understand various options offered by this.

Introduction

In the world of relational databases, SQL Server, Oracle, and similar other commercial products are considered as leaders. With the emergence of the cloud, these products have also made their way on the cloud. Though these databases are available in a service model on the cloud, these are still considered commercial products. In the world of open-source databases, MySQL and PostgreSQL are considered leading relational database products. PostgreSQL is available as a freeware community edition, as well as commercial offerings that support scalable and performant deployments, on-premises and on the cloud are also available. The Azure cloud also offers Azure Database for PostgreSQL as a service. This becomes the primary choice for those who have used PostgreSQL on-premises or in any hosted environment and want to migrate to a compatible database service on Azure cloud. In this article, we will learn Azure Database for PostgreSQL and understand the different options provided by this service.

Azure Database for PostgreSQL

It is assumed that one has required access to Azure cloud, to operate and administer Azure Database for PostgreSQL service. We would be focusing on creating a new instance of this service. Navigate to the Azure portal, click on All Services, and select the Databases section. In this section, we should be able to find Azure Database for PostgreSQL Servers. This is the service that will enable us to create different types of PostgreSQL instances. Click on the same and it would navigate us to the dashboard page as shown below. As this is the very first time, we are accessing this page and we do not have any instances created already, it would be blank.

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Getting started with Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible server

This article will walk you through the process to create a Flexible server model of Azure Database for PostgreSQL and learn the unique features offered by it.

Introduction

Microsoft Azure platform provides a range of options to host database servers on the Azure platform in an Infrastructure-as-a-service, Platform-as-a-Service, and Software-as-a-service option. Examples of different database products offered on the Azure platform are SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, CosmosDB, Cassandra, and others. PostgreSQL is one of the most popular open-source database servers used in the industry and is available on the Azure platform in a PaaS model through the service Azure Database for PostgreSQL. To date, the most common option to deploy PostgreSQL on the Azure platform has been the Single Server option. Using this model one can deploy a PostgreSQL Server with typical settings that are used or required for a transactional system. This option is suitable where the requirements for customization of the database server are minimal. This option offers the typical capabilities of high availability, disaster recovery, managed storage, etc. But often this does not eliminate the need to customize, optimize or fine-tune the database server settings to suit the needs of the application or business to which the database server caters.

As of the draft of this article, Azure recently launched a new model of Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible server, which allows a great deal of customization than the Single Server option, which is typically considered to be a start-up option when the development environments or sandbox environment are created. By the time database servers are moved to production or after the database has been deployed for a reasonable duration in production, one may need to customize it and that’s when the Flexible server deployment model may step in. In this article, we will learn how to create a Flexible server model of Azure Database for PostgreSQL and also understand the unique features associated with it.

Deploying Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible server Model

As the name suggests, the Flexible server model provides much more configuration or customization settings for database server management and operations than the single server model. Some unique features include the ability to deploy the server in multiple availability zones, cost optimization options which include stop/start/pausing of the database server, customized management windows, configuring alerts on the metrics, built-in connection pooling feature using the PostgreSQL’s native PgBouncer feature and much more. For an exhaustive list of features, refer to Azure documentation here.

Now that we know the unique offerings of the Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible server model, let’s go ahead and learn how to deploy this model step by step. It is assumed that one has required privileges on the Azure platform to access/administer this service.

Navigate to the Azure portal and click on All Services. Under the databases section, you would find the service titled Azure Database for PostgreSQL, as shown below. Click on this link to open the dashboard from where we will start the wizard that will create the database server.

Once you are on the dashboard page, it would look as shown below. As we do not have any server created, the list would be empty. To invoke the wizard that creates the database server, click on the button titled “Create Azure Database for PostgreSQL server”.

Once you click on the button, a new wizard would be invoked as shown below. Here we can see that there are four different options to deploy the PostgreSQL server. One of our interests at present is the Flexible server option. Click on the Create button in the Flexible server section.

To start with, we need to fill up the basic details like the subscription and resource group. If you do not have a resource group, you can create one and then select the same here. We then need to provide an appropriate server name as well as select the location in which the server will be created. In this case, we are creating the server in the East US location.

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Getting started with Azure Database for PostgreSQL

This article will get you started with Azure Database for PostgreSQL and understand various options offered by this.

Introduction

In the world of relational databases, SQL Server, Oracle, and similar other commercial products are considered as leaders. With the emergence of the cloud, these products have also made their way on the cloud. Though these databases are available in a service model on the cloud, these are still considered commercial products. In the world of open-source databases, MySQL and PostgreSQL are considered leading relational database products. PostgreSQL is available as a freeware community edition, as well as commercial offerings that support scalable and performant deployments, on-premises and on the cloud are also available. The Azure cloud also offers Azure Database for PostgreSQL as a service. This becomes the primary choice for those who have used PostgreSQL on-premises or in any hosted environment and want to migrate to a compatible database service on Azure cloud. In this article, we will learn Azure Database for PostgreSQL and understand the different options provided by this service.

Azure Database for PostgreSQL

It is assumed that one has required access to Azure cloud, to operate and administer Azure Database for PostgreSQL service. We would be focusing on creating a new instance of this service. Navigate to the Azure portal, click on All Services, and select the Databases section. In this section, we should be able to find Azure Database for PostgreSQL Servers. This is the service that will enable us to create different types of PostgreSQL instances. Click on the same and it would navigate us to the dashboard page as shown below. As this is the very first time, we are accessing this page and we do not have any instances created already, it would be blank.

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Getting Started With Azure Event Grid Viewer

In the last article, we had a look at how to start with Azure DevOps: Getting Started With Audit Streaming With Event Grid

In the article, we will go to the next step to create a subscription and use webhook event handlers to view those logs in our Azure web application.

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How to set up Azure Data Sync between Azure SQL databases and on-premises SQL Server

In this article, you learn how to set up Azure Data Sync services. In addition, you will also learn how to create and set up a data sync group between Azure SQL database and on-premises SQL Server.

In this article, you will see:

• Overview of Azure SQL Data Sync feature
• Discuss key components
• Comparison between Azure SQL Data sync with the other Azure Data option
• Setup Azure SQL Data Sync
• More…

Azure Data Sync

Azure Data Sync —a synchronization service set up on an Azure SQL Database. This service synchronizes the data across multiple SQL databases. You can set up bi-directional data synchronization where data ingest and egest process happens between the SQL databases—It can be between Azure SQL database and on-premises and/or within the cloud Azure SQL database. At this moment, the only limitation is that it will not support Azure SQL Managed Instance.

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System Databases in SQL Server

Introduction

In SSMS, we many of may noticed System Databases under the Database Folder. But how many of us knows its purpose?. In this article lets discuss about the System Databases in SQL Server.

System Database

Fig. 1 System Databases

There are five system databases, these databases are created while installing SQL Server.

• Master
• Model
• MSDB
• Tempdb
• Resource

Master

• This database contains all the System level Information in SQL Server. The Information in form of Meta data.
• Because of this master database, we are able to access the SQL Server (On premise SQL Server)

Model

• This database is used as a template for new databases.
• Whenever a new database is created, initially a copy of model database is what created as new database.

MSDB

• This database is where a service called SQL Server Agent stores its data.
• SQL server Agent is in charge of automation, which includes entities such as jobs, schedules, and alerts.

TempDB

• The Tempdb is where SQL Server stores temporary data such as work tables, sort space, row versioning information and etc.
• User can create their own version of temporary tables and those are stored in Tempdb.
• But this database is destroyed and recreated every time when we restart the instance of SQL Server.

Resource

• The resource database is a hidden, read only database that holds the definitions of all system objects.
• When we query system object in a database, they appear to reside in the sys schema of the local database, but in actually their definitions reside in the resource db.

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