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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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Tuning an Azure SQL Database


Automatic Tuning

Azure SQL Database Automatic tuning utilizes artificial intelligence to continuously monitor and improve queries executed on an Azure SQL Database.

Automatic tuning observes the workload and applies recommendations to speed up performance. The recommendations are applied when the database activity is low so that there aren't any performance impacts when applying recommendations.

The following are the options which are available for automatic tuning.

Create Index

Automatically identify and implement missing indexes to improve workload performance. It also verifies whether or not the indexes created have any improvement on the performance.

Drop Indexes

Automatically identifies and removes duplicate, redundant, and unused indexes.

Force Last Good Plan

Automatically identifies the queries using the execution plan which are slower than the previous good plan and forces the last known good plan to improve the query's performance.

Automatic tuning...

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