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Cloud SQL for SQL Server is a managed database service that helps you set up, maintain, manage, and administer your SQL Server databases on Google Cloud. For information specific to Microsoft SQL Server, see the SQL Server documentation. Learn more

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Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure

These lectures, demos, and hands-on labs give you an overview of Google Cloud products and services so that you can learn the value of Google Cloud and how to incorporate cloud-based solutions into your business strategies.

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Architecting with Google Cloud: Design and Process

This course features a combination of lectures, design activities, and hands-on labs to show you how to use proven design patterns on Google Cloud to build highly reliable and efficient solutions and operate deployments that are highly available and cost-effective.

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Creating a SQL Server instance integrated with Active Directory using Google Cloud SQL

This blog post describes the basic steps required to create a SQL Server instance integrated with Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory.

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Migrating data from SQL Server 2017 to Cloud SQL for SQL Server using snapshot replication

Shows how to migrate data from Microsoft SQL Server 2017 Enterprise running on Compute Engine to Cloud SQL for SQL Server 2017 Enterprise.

Migration Replication

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Migrating data between SQL Server 2008 and Cloud SQL for SQL Server using backup files

Shows how to migrate data from SQL Server 2008 to Cloud SQL for SQL Server 2017 Enterprise.

Migration

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Use cases

Data residency overview

Learn how to use Cloud SQL to enforce data residency requirements for data.

Data residency data

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Use Secret Manager to handle secrets in Cloud SQL

Learn how to use Secret Manager to store sensitive information about Cloud SQL instances and users as secrets.

Secret Manager secret

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Python SQLAlchemy

Use SQLAlchemy with your Cloud SQL for SQL Server database

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Node.js sample

Connecting to your Cloud SQL for SQL Server database in Node.js

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PHP PDO

Connecting your Cloud SQL for SQL Server database using PHP PDO

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Code Samples

Go web app sample

Simple examples of connecting to Cloud SQL for SQL Server using Go

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Code Samples

Terraform for Cloud SQL networking

Use Terraform to create Cloud SQL for SQL Server instances with private networking options.

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.NET sample

This sample application demonstrates how to store data in Google Cloud SQL with a SQL Server database when running in Google App Engine Flexible Environment.

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