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Professional Azure SQL Database Administration

You're reading from   Professional Azure SQL Database Administration Equip yourself with the skills you need to manage and maintain your SQL databases on the Microsoft cloud

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789538854
Length 398 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ahmad Osama Ahmad Osama
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In this chapter, you learned different ways of monitoring and tuning Azure SQL databases. You learned how to use Performance Metrics and Query Performance Insight to monitor database metrics and queries from the Azure portal. You also learned how to set up alarms on database metrics, and proactively took action as and when alarms were raised. Finally, you learned about important DMVs and set up extended events to monitor an Azure SQL Database.

Following this, you have learned to set up automatic tuning to automatically tune an Azure SQL Database, and you used in-memory OLTP to improve the performance of an OLTP workload.

Performance tuning is a vast topic and this book doesn't cover each and every aspect of the topic; however, it does give you insight into the available options. You can explore these options in detail to optimize your environment.

In this book, we addressed some important aspects of an Azure SQL Database instance such as migration, backup restorations, pricing policies...

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