For this tutorial, we're using an environment in Azure with three virtual machines (VMs). One VM is a Windows Server computer named adVM.contoso.com, running as a Domain Controller (DC) with the ...
An Azure subscription. Experience with deploying two managed instances within the same virtual network. A SQL Server subscriber, either on-premises or on an Azure VM. This tutorial uses an Azure VM.
As a heavy user of other RDBMS data platforms, I have long appreciated the extra effort that Microsoft put into their data management and administration tool, the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS).