By utilizing Azure SQL Database Managed Instance, you can leverage the benefits of a managed service while migrating your on-premises Microsoft SQL Server databases to the Azure cloud. It provides a seamless transition with minimal impact on your existing applications and allows you to take advantage of Azure's scalability, availability, and security features.
For the storage of a visual monitoring system, Azure Blob storage is a recommended solution.
Azure Blob Storage is a scalable and cost-effective storage service that is ideal for storing large amounts of unstructured data, such as images, videos, and other media files. It provides several features that make it suitable for a visual monitoring system.
For an analytical data store in Azure that enables business analysts and data scientists to execute ad hoc queries quickly, Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 is a recommended service.
Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 combines the scalability and cost-effectiveness of Azure Blob Storage with the rich analytics capabilities of Azure Data Lake. It offers several features that make it well-suited for analytical workloads.
For counting the number of weather reports received per time zone every minute in a real-time processing solution using Stream Analytics, the appropriate windowing function to choose would be the "Tumbling" windowing function.
Tumbling windows are fixed-size, non-overlapping windows that divide the input stream into distinct time intervals. In this case, you want to count the number of weather reports per time zone every minute. By using a Tumbling window of one minute, you ensure that the stream is partitioned into non-overlapping intervals of one minute each.
For the Health Interface application, considering its critical nature and the requirement for a new solution, a strong level of security should be implemented to ensure data confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
To ensure automatic recovery in the event of a full or partial loss of the Azure SQL Database service in the primary region, the recommended solution is to implement a failover group for the Azure SQL Database Managed Instance.
Failover groups provide a built-in high availability and disaster recovery mechanism for Azure SQL Database Managed Instance. They allow you to configure a secondary region where a synchronized copy of the database is maintained.
By including the recommendation to add a virtual network to the Azure SQL server, you establish a private network environment and limit access to the database only from the virtual machine within the same network. This configuration provides a secure and controlled access model, ensuring that the database is not directly accessible from the internet while allowing the necessary connectivity between the virtual machine and the database.
