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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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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

Activity: Creating alerts

In this section, you'll learn how to create an SQL database alert. Consider the following scenario, involving ToyStore Ltd. Mike has an SQL database on the Basic service tier and has been asked to configure autoscaling to change the service objective to GP_Gen5_4 when the CPU percentage metric is greater than 70%. For this purpose, he needs to first create an SQL database alert that is triggered when the CPU percentage is greater than 70%. Let's see how this can be done.

Creating an Azure Automation account and configuring a runbook

Azure Automation is an Azure service that allows you to automate Azure management tasks through runbooks.

A runbook is a job that accepts PowerShell or Python code and executes it as and when scheduled, or when invoked from an external program through a webhook:

  1. Open the Azure portal, https://portal.azure.com, and log in with your Azure credentials.
  2. In the left-hand navigation menu, select All services...
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