In this Azure SQL article, we will discuss the key differences between Azure SQL-managed instance and Azure SQL and the similarities between both Azure SQL managed instance and Azure SQL. Along with that, we will discuss a few other topics.
Azure SQL managed instance vs Azure SQL
Well, let’s do a tabular comparision between Azure SQL managed instance and Azure SQL.
Differences
| Azure SQL managed instance | Azure SQL |
| As per Microsoft, the availability is 99.99.% for all the databases. | As per Microsoft, the availability is 99.99–99.995% for all the databases. |
| It supports cross database transactions. | Cross database transactions are not supported. |
| It supports cross database queries. | No support for cross database queries. |
| It supports Distributed partition views. | No support for Distributed partition views. |
| Active Geo-replication suported here. | No support for Active Geo-replication. |
| It is supported but only in the case of serverless model. | Auto-scaling is not supported. |
| No support for indexes. | Indexes are suppoted in Azure SQL. |
| Database mail is supported here. | No support for Database mail. |
| SQL Server Agent is supported. | No support for SQL Server Agent. |
| Auditing is supported here. | No support for SQL server auditing. |
| Service Broker is supported in case of Azure SQL managed instance. | No support for Service Broker. |
Similarities
Let’s discuss the key lists of simillarities between Azure SQL managed instance vs Azure SQL
| Azure SQL managed instance | Azure SQL |
| Comes with Pay-as-you-go pricing model. | Comes with Pay-as-you-go pricing model. |
| Platform-as-a-service (Paas) offerings | Platform-as-a-service (Paas) offerings |
| No support for Database mirroring. | No support for Database mirroring. |
| Database snapshots not supported. | Database snapshots not supported. |
| Expressions are supported. | Expressions are supported. |
| No support for extended stored procedure. | No support for extended stored procedure. |
| It doesn’t support filestreams. | It doesn’t support filestreams. |
| Semantic search is not supported. | Semantic search is not supported. |
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Wrapping Up
In this Azure SQL article, we discussed the key differences and Similarities between Azure SQL managed instance and Azure SQL. Thanks for reading this article !!!