In part 8 of our Data in the Cloud series, Dan Stolts and Silvano Coriani discuss the investments made to Azure VMs which improve SQL Server performance, scalability and reduce maintenance and management efforts.

[2:52] What are the critical aspects of running SQL server in Azure VMs?
[5:40] What are the main configuration options?
[16:44] Let’s discuss capacity planning and potential migration issues
[24:08] What are some tips for operating and maintaining SQL Server instances?
[28:32] How about performance best practices?
[30:48] What about High Availability and Disaster Recovery Configurations?