Okay honestly I have done this once. I have deleted Azure SQL Databases and then try and find the quickest way to recover. The Azure portal is actually pretty good when it comes to deleting resources, for example it will usually ask you to re-type the name of the resource to confirm deletion, so you can tell what a bad mistake I made.
In my mind there are a couple of ways to move a database across resource groups. They vary from scripting to just using the Azure portal. I am going to use the Azure portal and do the following.
It’s just like a “backup and restore” strategy, all with the assumption that you are working within the same subscription ID.
Have you ever heard of SQL Reserved vCores? Well I never until recently. With this concept you have the ability to save money by PRE-PAYING for your compute resources for Azure SQL DB where you might be currently using a pay-as-you-go plan.
The following post shows my preferred way to automate / schedule some code against my Azure SQL Database. No it is not PowerShell or Azure Runbooks but it is definitely my favourite way.
Now that I have your attention with a powerful title how about some context? It is quite common to get this error message when trying to connect to your Azure SQL Database which obviously resides on a “logical” SQL Server.
Hello all – I am excited to announce that I will be doing a Stairway series on Azure SQL Database hosted over at SQLServerCentral.com.
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:
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.
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As a mini project I wanted to use Azure logic apps to pull tweets from my twitter account when people were tweeting about #Azure / #Microsoft. From here I used cognitive services – sentiment analysis API which returns a numeric score between 0 and 1. Scores close to 1 indicate a positive sentiment and scores close to 0 indicate a negative sentiment. Then I wanted to put that data into an Azure SQL Database table and link it to Power BI because I wanted to see where in the world tweets were coming from and with what score.
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.
