Azure SQL Database provides developers all the capabilities they need to build cloud-born applications that are secure, optimized for performance and scale, and meet the high availability demands for businesses today. In this session, you will learn best practices to ensure your application takes advantage of these capabilities as you build it so you can avoid costly changes and downtime for the future. This session will show you how to develop your code with .Net and C# using the latest Microsoft tools to launch quickly in the cloud while ensuring you meet the requirements of security, performance, and availability of your application. As part of this session, you will learn how to ensure your application is optimized with Azure SQL Database including Serverless and Hyperscale tiers, Azure Active Directory, retry and error handling, connection abstraction, automated indexing, and Intelligent Query Processing.