Abstract: Azure SQL DB offers disaggregated storage architecture called Hyperscale. While this architecture provides storage scale out, it comes at the cost of performance of I/O from remote storage.

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description Create a Hyperscale database in Azure SQL Database using the Azure portal, Transact-SQL, PowerShell, or the Azure CLI. To create databases via the Azure portal, PowerShell, Azure CLI, or ...

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The [Hyperscale service tier](service-tier-hyperscale.md) provides a highly scalable storage and compute performance tier that leverages the Azure architecture to scale out storage and compute ...

Abstract: XLOG is the centralized log service of the SQL Azure Hyperscale (Hyperscale) distributed database-as-a-service (DBaaS) within Microsoft Azure. It is responsible for disseminating transaction ...