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Managed instance is a new deployment option of Azure SQL Database, providing near 100% compatibility with the latest SQL Server on-premises (Enterprise Edition) Database Engine, providing a native virtual network (VNet) implementation that addresses common security concerns, and a business model favorable for on-premises SQL Server customers. The managed instance deployment model allows existing SQL Server customers to lift and shift their on-premises applications to the cloud with minimal application and database changes. At the same time, the managed instance deployment option preserves all PaaS capabilities (automatic patching and version updates, automated backups, high-availability ), that drastically reduces management overhead and TCO.
Important
For a list of regions in which the managed instance deployment option is currently available, see supported regions.
The following diagram outlines key features of managed instances:
The managed instance deployment model is designed for customers looking to migrate a large number of apps from on-premises or IaaS, self-built, or ISV provided environment to fully managed PaaS cloud environment, with as low migration effort as possible. Using the fully automated Data Migration Service (DMS) in Azure, customers can lift and shift their on-premises SQL Server to a managed instance that offers compatibility with SQL Server on-premises and complete isolation of customer instances with native VNet support. With Software Assurance, you can exchange their existing licenses for discounted rates on a managed instance using the Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server. A managed instance is the best migration destination in the cloud for SQL Server instances that require high security and a rich programmability surface.
The managed instance deployment option aims delivers close to 100% surface area compatibility with the latest on-premises SQL Server version through a staged release plan.
To decide between the Azure SQL Database deployment options: single database, pooled database, and managed instance, and SQL Server hosted in virtual machine, see how to choose the right version of SQL Server in Azure.
Key features and capabilities
Managed instance combines the best features that are available both in Azure SQL Database and SQL Server Database Engine.
Important
A managed instance runs with all of the features of the most recent version of SQL Server, including online operations, automatic plan corrections, and other enterprise performance enhancements. A Comparison of the features available is explained in Feature comparison: Azure SQL Database versus SQL Server.
Important
Azure SQL Database (all deployment options), has been certified against a number of compliance standards. For more information, see the Microsoft Azure Trust Center where you can find the most current list of SQL Database compliance certifications.
The key features of managed instances are shown in the following table:
vCore-based purchasing model
The vCore-based purchasing model for managed instances gives you flexibility, control, transparency, and a straightforward way to translate on-premises workload requirements to the cloud. This model allows you to change compute, memory, and storage based upon your workload needs. The vCore model is also eligible for up to 30 percent savings with the Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server.
In vCore model, you can choose between generations of hardware.
Find more information about the difference between hardware generations in managed instance resource limits.
Important
New Gen4 databases are no longer supported in the Australia East or Brazil South regions.
Managed instance service tiers
Managed instance is available in two service tiers:
Both service tiers guarantee 99.99% availability and enable you to independently select storage size and compute capacity. For more information on the high availability architecture of Azure SQL Database, see High availability and Azure SQL Database.
General purpose service tier
The following list describes key characteristic of the General Purpose service tier:
For more information, see storage layer in general purpose tier and storage performance best practices and considerations for managed instances (general purpose).
Find more information about the difference between service tiers in managed instance resource limits.
Business Critical service tier
Business Critical service tier is built for applications with high IO requirements. It offers highest resilience to failures using several isolated replicas.
The following list outlines the key characteristics of the Business Critical service tier:
Find more information about the difference between service tiers in managed instance resource limits.
Managed instance management operations
Azure SQL Database provides management operations that you can use to automatically deploy new managed instances, update instance properties, and delete instances when no longer needed. This section provides information about management operations and their typical durations.
To support deployments within Azure Virtual Networks (VNets) and provide isolation and security for customers, managed instance relies on virtual clusters, which represent a dedicated set of isolated virtual machines deployed inside the customer's virtual network subnet. Essentially, every managed instance deployment in an empty subnet results in a new virtual cluster buildout.
Subsequent operations on deployed managed instances might also have effects on its underlying virtual cluster. This affects the duration of management operations, as deploying additional virtual machines comes with an overhead that needs to be considered when you plan new deployments or updates to existing managed instances.
All management operations can be categorized as follows:
Typically, operations on virtual clusters take the longest. Duration of the operations on virtual clusters vary – below are the values that you can typically expect, based on existing service telemetry data:
Additionally, management of instances may also include one of the operations on hosted databases, which results in longer durations:
The following table summarizes operations and typical overall durations:
* Virtual cluster is built per hardware generation.
** The 4 vCores deployment option was released in June 2019 and requires a new virtual cluster version. If you had instances in the target subnet that were all created before June 12, a new virtual cluster will be deployed automatically to host 4 vCore instances.
*** 12 hours is the current configuration but that might change in the future, so don't take a hard dependency on it. If you need to delete a virtual cluster earlier (to release the subnet for example), see Delete a subnet after deleting an Azure SQL Database managed instance.
Instance availability during management
Managed instances are not available to client applications during deployment and deletion operations.
Managed instances are available during update operations but there is a short downtime caused by the failover that happens at the end of updates that typically lasts up to 10 seconds.
Important
Duration of a failover can vary significantly in case of long-running transactions that happen on the databases due to prolonged recovery time. Hence it’s not recommended to scale compute or storage of Azure SQL Database managed instance or to change service tier at the same time with the long-running transactions (data import, data processing jobs, index rebuild, etc.). Database failover that will be performed at the end of the operation will cancel ongoing transactions and result in prolonged recovery time.
Accelerated database recovery is not currently available for Azure SQL Database managed instances. Once enabled, this feature will significantly reduce variability of failover time, even in case of long-running transactions.
Advanced security and compliance
The managed instance deployment option combines advanced security features provided by Azure cloud and SQL Server Database Engine.
Managed instance security isolation
A managed instance provides additional security isolation from other tenants in the Azure cloud. Security isolation includes:
The following diagram outlines various connectivity options for your applications:
To learn more details about VNet integration and networking policy enforcement at the subnet level, see VNet architecture for managed instances and Connect your application to a managed instance.
Important
Place multiple managed instance in the same subnet, wherever that is allowed by your security requirements, as that will bring you additional benefits. Collocating instances in the same subnet will significantly simplify networking infrastructure maintenance and reduce instance provisioning time, since long provisioning duration is associated with the cost of deploying the first managed instance in a subnet.
Azure SQL Database Security Features
Azure SQL Database provides a set of advanced security features that can be used to protect your data.
Migration of an encrypted database to a managed instance is supported via the Azure Database Migration Service (DMS) or native restore. If you plan to migrate an encrypted database using native restore, migration of the existing TDE certificate from the SQL Server on-premises or SQL Server in a virtual machine to a managed instance is a required step. For more information about migration options, see SQL Server instance migration to managed instance.
Azure Active Directory Integration
The managed instance deployment option supports traditional SQL server Database engine logins and logins integrated with Azure Active Directory (AAD). Azure AD server principals (logins) (public preview) are Azure cloud version of on-premises database logins that you are using in your on-premises environment. Azure AD server principals (logins) enable you to specify users and groups from your Azure Active Directory tenant as true instance-scoped principals, capable of performing any instance-level operation, including cross-database queries within the same managed instance.
A new syntax is introduced to create Azure AD server principals (logins) (public preview), FROM EXTERNAL PROVIDER. For more information on the syntax, see CREATE LOGIN, and review the Provision an Azure Active Directory administrator for your managed instance article.
Azure Active Directory integration and multi-factor authentication
The managed instance deployment option enables you to centrally manage identities of database user and other Microsoft services with Azure Active Directory integration. This capability simplified permission management and enhances security. Azure Active Directory supports multi-factor authentication (MFA) to increase data and application security while supporting a single sign-on process.
Authentication
Managed instance authentication refers to how users prove their identity when connecting to the database. SQL Database supports two types of authentication:
Authorization
Authorization refers to what a user can do within an Azure SQL Database, and is controlled by your user account's database role memberships and object-level permissions. A Managed instance has same authorization capabilities as SQL Server 2017.
Database migration
The managed instance deployment option targets user scenarios with mass database migration from on-premises or IaaS database implementations. Managed instance supports several database migration options:
Back up and restore
The migration approach leverages SQL backups to Azure Blob storage. Backups stored in Azure storage blob can be directly restored into a managed instance using the T-SQL RESTORE command.
Important
Backups from a managed instance can only be restored to another managed instance. They cannot be restored to an on-premises SQL Server or to a single database/elastic pool.
Data Migration Service
The Azure Database Migration Service is a fully managed service designed to enable seamless migrations from multiple database sources to Azure Data platforms with minimal downtime. This service streamlines the tasks required to move existing third party and SQL Server databases to Azure SQL Database (single databases, pooled databases in elastic pools, and instance databases in a managed instance) and SQL Server in Azure VM. See How to migrate your on-premises database to managed instance using DMS.
SQL features supported
The managed instance deployment option aims to deliver close to 100% surface area compatibility with on-premises SQL Server coming in stages until service general availability. For a features and comparison list, see SQL Database feature comparison, and for a list of T-SQL differences in managed instances versus SQL Server, see managed instance T-SQL differences from SQL Server.
The managed instance deployment option supports backward compatibility to SQL 2008 databases. Direct migration from SQL 2005 database servers is supported, compatibility level for migrated SQL 2005 databases are updated to SQL 2008.
The following diagram outlines surface area compatibility in managed instance:
Key differences between SQL Server on-premises and in a managed instance
The managed instance deployment option benefits from being always-up-to-date in the cloud, which means that some features in on-premises SQL Server may be either obsolete, retired, or have alternatives. There are specific cases when tools need to recognize that a particular feature works in a slightly different way or that service is not running in an environment you do not fully control:
Managed instance administration features
The managed instance deployment option enables system administrator to spend less time on administrative tasks because the SQL Database service either performs them for you or greatly simplifies those tasks. For example, OS / RDBMS installation and patching, dynamic instance resizing and configuration, backups, database replication (including system databases), high availability configuration, and configuration of health and performance monitoring data streams.
Important
For a list of supported, partially supported, and unsupported features, see SQL Database features. For a list of T-SQL differences in managed instances versus SQL Server, see managed instance T-SQL differences from SQL Server
How to programmatically identify a managed instance
The following table shows several properties, accessible through Transact SQL, that you can use to detect that your application is working with managed instance and retrieve important properties.
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When I install SQL Server 2008 Express in prompts me to create an instance and aborts if I don't. Then I see that information in an entry in Sql Server Configuration Manager on SQL Server Services. What is a SQL Server instance?
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An SQL Server instance is a complete SQL server and you can install many instances on a machine but you can have only 1 default instance.
An SQL Server instance has its own copy of the server files, databases and security credentials.
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SQL SERVER INSTANCE An instance of the Database Engine is a copy of the sqlservr.exe executable that runs as an operating system service. Each instance manages several system databases and one or more user databases. Each computer can run multiple instances of the Database Engine independently of other instances.
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SQL Server is composed of three main parts: 1. An engine, which is the software started by a few Windows services that performs lookups, sorts, and other actions; 2. Meta-data such as the master and msdb system databases;3. User databases where data is stored.
Instances also allow you to work with multiple versions and even editions of the product. You can install Instances at any time, even after SQL Server is installed and running for some time. So for Instance (no pun intended), you can install SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition, SQL Server 2008 Standard Edition and SQL Server 2008 R2 Developer Edition, all on the same hardware.
Instances apply primarily to the database engine and its supporting components, not to the client tools.When you install multiple instances, each instance gets a unique set of:1. System and user databases.2. The SQL Server and SQL Server Agent services. For default instances, the names of the services remain MSSQLServer and SQLServerAgent. For named instances, the names of the services are changed to MSSQL$instancename and SQLAgent$instancename, allowing them to be started and stopped independently of the other instances on the server. The database engines for the different instances are started and stopped using the associated SQL Server service. The SQL Server Agent services manage scheduled events for the associated instances of the database engine.3. The registry keys associated with the database engine and the SQL Server and SQL Server Agent services separate versions and releases..4. Network connection addresses so that applications can connect to specific instances.
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