Creating Azure SQL Managed Instance

First step login into the Azure portal and find SQL Managed Instance and click create. Yes you can find these tutorials all online but this is my thinking and opinions on some key areas.

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Azure SQL Managed Instances

After many years working with different “flavours” of SQL server in Azure from its true PaaS form to SQL server in AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) it’s time to look at SQL Managed Instances – you will notice that I call it SQL MI.

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Creating SQL server Databases in AKS – Part 1

So, the point in the previous blog post was to leverage Persistent Volume Claims – PVC for data when using SQL server that it is needed in a stateful manner. But what happens when we don’t create SQL server in AKS without a PVC?

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