I have decided to do a summary blog post on backup and recovery options for Azure SQL Database. If you have a DBA background, you will know the importance of securing backups for your SQL Server databases. We have many options to do such a thing; being full, differential, log and filegroup backups. The common question that is asked is how do you backup (and restore) Azure SQL Databases? Or, what are the options available?
We all know that the magic figure for cost threshold for parallelism is 5 by default, meaning if the estimated cost of a query is greater than 5 it may very well generate a parallel plan.
Does this apply to Azure SQL Database? Let’s check.
This command only applies to Azure SQL Database, at a high level it empties the database authentication cache for logins and firewall rules for the current USER database.
Nobody wants to waste money and being in the cloud is no exception! Luckily for us Azure is very efficient in tracking usage patterns and its associated costs, in this case, potential cost savings.
You can find this information under Help + Support.
I was using a query on one of my local SQL Servers where I wanted to know what logins were connected to my databases. I actually ended up running the query against my Azure SQL Database and had some very interesting results.
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