Azure Portal – Bad Request

I had a strange issue recently when trying to login to the Azure Portal. Quite simply I would enter my login details and ended up with this message – Bad Request – Request Too Long, HTTP Error 400. The Size of the request headers is too long.

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Azure SQL Database – Optimizing For Ad-hoc Workloads

Today I found out that it is now possible to enable the setting optimize for ad-hoc workloads at the database level when using Azure SQL Database. Traditionally this was always set at the server level for locally based SQL Servers.

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Azure SQL Analytics

Azure SQL Analytics is currently in preview mode, still it is very impressive. The goal of this feature is to visualize important SQL performance metrics for your Azure SQL Database. There are a couple of things you need to do first.

  • Setup a Log Analytics workspace.
  • Enable diagnostics for your SQL Databases and/or elastic pools.

Please see the prerequisites section within this document – YOU MUST do this else you will not be able to use this feature. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/log-analytics/log-analytics-azure-sql#prerequisites

Once setup it should take approximately 15 minutes to start capturing and rendering back some data. Don’t be surprised if it does take a little longer as was the case for myself.

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Azure SQL Database – Using sp_BlitzIndex

I was doing some normal activities on one of my Azure SQL Databases, I went to make a cup of tea and returned to the following message:

The statement has been terminated. Msg 40544, Level 17, State 12, Line 15 The database ‘TestDB’ has reached its size quota. Partition or delete data, drop indexes, or consult the documentation for possible resolutions.

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Azure SQL Database – Service Tiers

Naturally the cost of Azure SQL Database directly relates to what tier and performance level you are using. Starting from the least expensive basic database to the more premium ones I thought it would be worthwhile capturing the costs (GBP) across all tiers.

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