The following post shows my preferred way to automate / schedule some code against my Azure SQL Database. No it is not PowerShell or Azure Runbooks but it is definitely my favourite way.
SQL Agent for Azure SQL Database? Not quite
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Category Archives: Azure
Azure SQL Elastic Pools – Moving Databases
If you read official Microsoft documentation about naming conventions for your SQL elastic pools, it is hard to find any guidelines on the subject. You are probably thinking it is not that big of a deal. I thought the same until I tried to execute some TSQL to move a database into an elastic pool.
Azure SQL DB – Login failed for user NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON.
Now that I have your attention with a powerful title how about some context? It is quite common to get this error message when trying to connect to your Azure SQL Database which obviously resides on a “logical” SQL Server.
Azure SQL Database – Stairway Series
Hello all – I am excited to announce that I will be doing a Stairway series on Azure SQL Database hosted over at SQLServerCentral.com.
Linked Server to Azure SQL Database
You may (or may not) have a requirement to setup a linked server to Azure SQL Database from a locally installed SQL Server. One reason could be to pull down some reports from an Azure SQL Database to a local file share. Whatever your reason is hopefully you will find this blog post useful because I ran into some complications on the way.
Azure SQL Database – The Default Isolation Is?
So what is the default isolation level for Azure SQL Database? I ran the following code to check it out.
Azure SQL Database / SQL Server – Paused Index Rebuild
I was creating some demo non-clustered indexes in one of my Azure SQL Databases and received the following warning when I executed this code:
Handy TSQL for Azure SQL Database
I do not always use the Azure portal to make database changes or to check for certain information. I use it a lot of for blogging purposes but for some tasks I rather just run code via SSMS – SQL Server Management Studio.
Like what?
Extended Events – Using Azure Storage
Last year I wrote about Azure SQL Database extended events (https://blobeater.blog/2017/02/06/using-extended-events-in-azure/) and gave an example where I was capturing deadlocks via the ring buffer. Ever since then I wanted to do a follow-up post but using Azure storage as the target for my XEL files.
This is more complicated than using the ring buffer as the target and requires a couple of things:
- Azure storage account where you create a dedicated container for the files.
- SAS key.
- Database master key.
- Database scoped credential.
Getting my Twitter Data via Azure Logic Apps
As a mini project I wanted to use Azure logic apps to pull tweets from my twitter account when people were tweeting about #Azure / #Microsoft. From here I used cognitive services – sentiment analysis API which returns a numeric score between 0 and 1. Scores close to 1 indicate a positive sentiment and scores close to 0 indicate a negative sentiment. Then I wanted to put that data into an Azure SQL Database table and link it to Power BI because I wanted to see where in the world tweets were coming from and with what score.
