Azure SQL Database Gen4 to Gen 5

For the past year Microsoft have said that Generation 4 hardware is soon coming to its end of life. I know many installations that have used Generation 4 over 5 so its time to think of the plan to facilitate this move.

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Azure SQL DB – Troubleshooting CPU issues

When you have the need to find out real time what is causing high CPU issues within your Azure SQL Database, there is nothing better than using TSQL and SSMS. Azure portal will highlight the below, this is when I made CPU contention.

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Azure SQL Database and Long-Term Backups

There is a new (ish) interface to looking and configuring backups for your Azure SQL Database. This can be found within the settings section of the SQL Server.

As you can see, by default we have 7 days retention to allow for PITR – Point In Time Recovery, anything longer you will need to setup long term retention.

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