Quite a significant change has taken place within the Azure SQL Database space, more specifically the development of Azure SQL Database Serverless. Currently in preview mode this “compute” tier changes how you are billed (/second) and addresses some behaviors that many have wanted in the past. There are things to be aware of though.
A quick 2 minute upload (with sound, my voice) showing you how easy it is to create an Azure SQL Database using the Azure portal and then using SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio) to connect to it.
There are a few ways to scale a SQL elastic pool. For this blog post I show you how to scale up. It can be done via the Azure portal and Azure PowerShell but not T-SQL.
I would say the PowerShell route is the easiest. Connect to your account and issue the below code. Here I am going from a 100 edtu pool to a massive 2000 edtu pool whilst tweaking the min/max setting.
Do you want to identify the correct Service Tier and Compute Size ( was once known as performance level) for your Azure SQL Database? How would you go about it? Would you use the DTU (Database Transaction Unit) calculator? What about the new pricing model vCore? How would you translate you current on-premises workload to the cloud?
Have you ever wanted to capture the T-SQL, waits, sessions IDs (etc) at a specific time for Azure SQL Database? Sure there are a few ways to do this. Extended Events comes to mind but I wanted to do something different.
Checking out the transaction log in Azure SQL Database. If you are curious like me, you will want to know about what your transaction log is doing in the cloud. The following queries have been tested and run okay within Azure SQL Database. It gives you some great insight.
Getting straight to the point, I initiated a very common task recently, another scale up request. However, a new message popped up. “The service objective assignment for database on server could not be completed as the database is too busy. Reduce the workload before initiating another service objective update”.
Being the start of the new year and with new projects most likely starting again I would like to share with you an article I wrote a while back, but still quite relevant.
Hopefully you find it useful for those wanting to know key differences between Azure SQL Database and a locally installed SQL Server from a DBA perspective and whether or not these key differences can be seen as advantages or disadvantages.
I wrote a guest article for an IT consultancy on Azure SQL Database, more specifically DTUs and vCore options. At a high level I discuss what both options are, the differences and what you should select. Hopefully you will find it useful. Please see the link below:
This is kind of a follow up from my last blog post about a scale down request issue. (https://blobeater.blog/2018/11/07/azure-sql-database-aborting-scale-request/) I was confused, so confused that I ended up logging a support request with Microsoft. The issue was I wanted to scale down a database from S1 to Basic however it would take hours for a 1GB database. Obviously something was up, but what?
