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Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900): Identify Considerations for Relational Data on Azure

Are you pursuing certification for Azure Data Fundamentals or looking to check the prerequisite box for more advanced data certifications? If so, it’s time to up your game! This course drills in on relational data and databases—the Azure way!

Beginner
43m

Created by Amy Coughlin

Last Updated Dec 11, 2025

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Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900): Identify Considerations for Relational Data on Azure

Are you pursuing certification for Azure Data Fundamentals or looking to check the prerequisite box for more advanced data certifications? If so, it’s time to up your game! This course drills in on relational data and databases—the Azure way!

Beginner
43m

Created by Amy Coughlin

Last Updated Dec 11, 2025

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What you'll learn

Cloud data technologies offer tremendous potential—but without a foundational understanding of key concepts, the variety of tools and services can quickly become overwhelming. In this course, Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900): Identify Considerations for Relational Data on Azure, you’ll gain the ability to navigate Azure’s relational data services with confidence.

First, you’ll explore the core features of relational data, including normalization and commonly used relational database objects. Next, you’ll discover how to align different types of workloads with the appropriate Azure relational data resources, spanning both Microsoft and open-source solutions. Finally, you’ll learn how to query and manage data using SQL across Azure’s relational data services.

When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of Azure relational data concepts and tools needed to assess service value, support your production environment, and advance your DP-900 exam preparation.

Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900): Identify Considerations for Relational Data on Azure
Beginner
43m
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Howdy fellow student of life! Thanks for your interest in learning more about what makes me tick. Throughout my tech career, I found that I had the most fun and the greatest satisfaction when I was helping others learn about and embrace software and related technologies. So, when I was honored to be offered a staff position as a training architect -- I realized a dream to combine my passion for technology and my passion for teaching others. I hope that the material I provide plays some small part in helping you pursue your passions, too. A leader of people, a shepherd of data -- and a follower of both -- I have more than 30 years in the tech industry, much of it focused on Microsoft stack services and databases, for both on-prem and cloud implementations. I cut my cloud teeth while reducing a patent to practice; we implemented a card game paradigm in a WCF service on Azure. It was late in 2012, when interacting with Azure involved a lot of co-mentoring with erstwhile Microsoft folks. I've had my head in the cloud(s) ever since!

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