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Professional Azure SQL Database Administration

You're reading from Professional Azure SQL Database Administration Equip yourself with the skills to manage and maintain data in the cloud

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789802542

Length 562 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Ansible

Concepts

Configuration Management

Author (1):

Ahmad Osama

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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

About the Book

1. Microsoft Azure SQL Database Primer FREE CHAPTER

2. Migrating a SQL Server Database to an Azure SQL Database

3. Backing Up an Azure SQL Database

4. Restoring an Azure SQL Database

5. Securing an Azure SQL Database

6. Scaling out an Azure SQL Database

7. Azure SQL Database Elastic Pools

8. High Availability and Disaster Recovery

9. Monitoring and Tuning Azure SQL Database

10. Database Features

Monitoring an Azure SQL Database Using the Azure Portal

The Azure portal provides multiple monitoring options, which are available in the Monitoring and Intelligent Performance sections of an Azure SQL database on the Azure portal.

The Monitoring section for an Azure SQL database on the Azure portal has the following options:

Figure 9.1: The Monitoring section for an Azure SQL database

The Intelligent Performance section for an Azure SQL database on the Azure portal has the following options:

Figure 9.2: Intelligent Performance section options

Let's look at each of these options in detail.

Monitoring Database Metrics

Database metrics such as CPU percentage, DTU percentage, and data I/O can be monitored in the overview section.

The overview section displays the DTU percentage for the past hour, the last 24 hours, or the last 7 days, in the form of a line chart:

Figure 9.3: The Overview section indicating the DTU percentage

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Authors (1)

Ahmad Osama

Ahmad Osama

Ahmad Osama works for Pitney Bowes Pvt. Ltd. as a technical architect and is a former Microsoft Data Platform MVP. In his day job, he works on developing and maintaining high performant, on-premises and cloud SQL Server OLTP environments as well as deployment and automating tasks using PowerShell. When not working, Ahmad blogs at DataPlatformLabs and can be found glued to his Xbox.

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