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Azure SQL Managed Instance – Cost Saving!
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Tag Archives: Managed Instance
Azure SQL Managed Instance – Maintenance Windows
A post close to my heart, Azure SQL Managed Instance, I have blogged about this many times but I feel I should be sharing more details about this. One important topic – Maintenance windows.
SQL Managed Instances – Failing Over
This is our current setup shown below.
There is not much to failing over with Managed Instances, from experience it is similar to that of Azure SQL Database.
Azure SQL Managed Instance CPU and RAM
With SQL Managed Instance you will need to consider your configuration requirements in terms of core count for the CPU and memory, which we all know that the MIN/MAX settings for SQL is so important.
Scaling your Azure SQL Managed Instance
No doubt there will be times where you need to scale up the actual instance in terms of vCores but also you may want to move across tiers (for example General Purpose to Business Critical). If you remember a few blog posts ago I said it was really important to plan for these activities during the build phase, more specifically get the subnet range right. If you done that then you will be fine.
So how do you do this? Easy. Let’s start with the Azure Portal.
Restoring to Azure SQL Managed Instance – Part 2
So in the last blog we confirmed that we could move to SQL MI via some analysis, this is now time to actually do a backup and restore via URLs to move data.
Restore to SQL Managed Instance
Now that we have a Managed Instance built, the next question is how do we get data across? I will break this up into separate posts but the lesson for this blog post is ANALYSIS FIRST!
Honestly, there will probably be less work needed to make the data compatible for Managed Instance, this is very true if comparing to the true PaaS offering of Azure SQL DB, but we should always check before migrating.
Creating Azure SQL Managed Instance
First step login into the Azure portal and find SQL Managed Instance and click create. Yes you can find these tutorials all online but this is my thinking and opinions on some key areas.
Azure SQL Managed Instances
After many years working with different “flavours” of SQL server in Azure from its true PaaS form to SQL server in AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) it’s time to look at SQL Managed Instances – you will notice that I call it SQL MI.
Azure Advisor – for Azure Data Platform
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could access one main dashboard / report that pulls in information from many tools such as security centre, SQL advisor and cost management tools? Well you can, thus giving you a focal point to implement best practices, called Azure Advisor. This is not specifically for Azure SQL Database, you can leverage this for most resources within Azure. Later in this blog post you see that I will use it as a focal point for my database infrastructure in Azure.
In the Azure portal under services look for “advisor”
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