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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
