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:
Azure SQL Database / SQL Server – Paused Index Rebuild
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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?
Azure SQL 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.
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.
Azure SQL Database vCore
vCore based performance levels are very new, currently in preview and not yet rolled out to all Azure regions (The preview is not available in the following regions: West Europe, France Central, UK South, and UK West.). It does offer a totally different approach to sizing your database.
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