With Halloween around the corner what better topic to discuss than phantom reads. A phantom read occurs when rows have been inserted after a read operation and becomes visible in a follow-up read operation within the same transaction.
Azure does a lot for your SQL Database, from backups to automatic tuning but it still doesn’t have an index maintenance policy straight out of the box via the portal. Some may not care about rebuilding your indexes but it is still something I like to do, the question is, how can I automate this because I am not a fan of manually running code for index rebuilds.
The answer is via Azure Automation.
