In the previous chapter, we covered the first part of the Developing for the Cloud and for Azure Storage objective, by covering how to develop solutions that use Cosmos DB storage. We've covered how to create, read, update, and delete data by using appropriate APIs, and more.

In this chapter, we are continuing with this objective. We are going to cover how to develop solutions that use a relational database. We are going to cover how to provision and configure relational databases, how to configure elastic pools for Azure SQL Database, and how to create, read, update, and delete data tables by using code.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

• Understanding Azure SQL Database
• Provisioning and configuring an Azure SQL database
• Creating, reading, updating, and deleting data tables by using code
• Configuring elastic pools for Azure SQL Database
• Understanding Azure SQL Database managed instances