Azure SQL Database SLA Updates

I am sure many missed the updates to Azure SQL Database SLA (Service Level Agreement). It used to be 99.99% across all tiers  but split between two different high-availability architectural models. Basic, Standard and General Purpose tiers had its own model and the Premium / Business Critical tiers had a different one.

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SQL Server 2019 Query Store And SSMS

While not specific to SQL Server 2019 (I was using this version to do some testing) I was struggling to find how to change the time period of analysis for the Query Store reports within SSMS.

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Azure SQL Elastic Jobs

The purpose of an Elastic Job is to execute a T-SQL script that is scheduled or executed ad-hoc against a group of Azure SQL databases.  Targets can be in different SQL Database servers, subscriptions, and/or regions. This blog post is quite long and heavy (code wise) so grab a coffee and follow through.

The architecture you could follow is shown below.

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