There is a new way to setup Azure elastic jobs to run against a target group of databases (targeting an elastic pool). I actually found the process quite messy ( especially when trying to setup all the security access via T-SQL). Setting it up via the Azure portal is not currently an option. The first element remains the same, the need to create a “Job database”. This is the central database, think of it as the master. (Not really the master database in SQL Server but holds a lot of metadata etc) Then you need to define the group (usually the elastic pool), create credentials for access and then the job itself.

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