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Professional Azure SQL Managed Database Administration

You're reading from   Professional Azure SQL Managed Database Administration Efficiently manage and modernize data in the cloud using Azure SQL

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801076524
Length 724 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Ahmad Osama Ahmad Osama
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Shashikant Shakya Shashikant Shakya
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Preface 1. Introduction to Azure SQL managed databases 2. Service tiers FREE CHAPTER 3. Migration 4. Backups 5. Restoration 6. Security 7. Scalability 8. Elastic and instance pools 9. High availability and disaster recovery 10. Monitoring and tuning 11. Database features 12. App modernization Index

Summary

In this chapter, we covered different ways of monitoring and tuning Azure SQL Databases and SQL Managed Instances. We learned how to use Azure SQL Database performance metrics and Query Performance Insight to monitor database metrics and queries from the Azure portal.

The chapter talked about using Azure SQL Analytics to monitor Azure SQL Database and SQL Managed Instance. Intelligent Insights, provided by Azure SQL Analytics, can be used to set up alerts on different metrics such as CPU, log I/O, blocks, and deadlocks for Azure SQL Database. Intelligent Insights can also be used to fine-tune long-running and CPU- or I/O-intensive queries to further optimize an Azure SQL database.

We also learned how to set up alerts on database metrics, and proactively acted as and when alerts were raised. We learned about important DMVs and how to set up extended events to monitor a SQL database or a managed instance.

Following this, we set up automatic tuning for an Azure SQL database...

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