This is by no means a complete list but more of a personal list of features I have seen not setup or just missed out when looking at Azure SQL DB. After reading, not only will I hope that you agree but it may provoke you to double check your setups.
This post is to help you if you are suffering from the following issue:
A VSS writer has rejected an event with error. The writer experienced a non-transient error. If the backup process is retried, the error is likely to reoccur. Changes that the writer made to the writer components while handling the event will not be available to the requester. Check the event log for related events from the application hosting the VSS writer.
Consider the following scenario:
In this situation, you notice that the VSS backup fails and triggers the following entry in the Application log.
Do you enable this setting to allow automatic tuning to care of all your performance needs? Well not ALL your needs, more so:
SQL Server 2019 is ready available for use, but before you download you should review the webinars, white papers and eBook available on the technology (definitely the eBook 😉 ).
You can find the eBook at the following link –
https://info.microsoft.com/ww-landing-introducing-sql-server-2019-content.html
Yes you can still get execution plans for Azure SQL Database, you cannot get this from the Azure Portal so it is good to know for your tuning days. It is based on the same code you have probably run many times before. Lets get the plan handle and work through an example.
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