Azure SQL Database Automatic Tuning Feature


What is Azure Automatic Tuning Feature

Microsoft Azure SQL Database Automatic tuning one of the monitoring and tuning features we can use it on Azure SQL for more information about other monitoring and tuning services check this Article, Automatic tuning is a fully managed intelligent performance service used for collecting the Azure SQL Database Workload and monitor queries executed on a database continuously, and it is working based on AI Artificial intelligence and ML Machine Learning technologies, with Automatic tuning Azure SQL will automatically capture all of the performance issues and analyze it then will create a new index or drop index  based on the performance case, even one of the capabilities of this services after applying the performance solution it will be under validating based on the AI and ML technologies and if the Azure Automatic tuning found this solution not fixed the issue, it will rollback it automatically, all of this actions will be recorded in the logs to be able to track it

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Security Layers on Azure SQL Database


In this article I will explain the options available on Azure we can use it for securing Azure SQL Database, as we know that we have azure deployment model options (Single Database, Elastic Pool, Managed instance, SQL on Azure VM) our article today focused on Azure Paas Database deployment option (Single Database, Elastic Pool, Managed Instance) for more information about Database Deployment option and more details Azure SQL Database deployment models check below articles and if you are interested in more Azure Articles in Database and other services check this Link, also IF you are preparing for Azure AZ-103 so this Post for you check it now.

  1. Azure Database Deployment model options
  2. Azure Single Database Fundamental
  3. Azure SQL Database Elastic Pool Fundamental
  4. Azure SQL Database Managed Instance Fundamental
Azure Database Security Layers
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Azure SQL Database Data Sync Group


Introduction

Azure Data Sync is Microsoft service announced on June 18, 2018, and it is used to sync the data from Azure SQL to another Azure SQL Database or from SQL Server on-premises to Azure SQL Bi-Directional this services used for data sync only and you should not use it as disaster recovery or as migration tool or as read-only replica IF you need to know when you should use azure data sync check this Microsoft article, and if you need to know What is the best option for Azure SQL Database Migration, replication and read-only check this link you will find very useful articles

Azure Data Sync Concept

  • Sync Group: is one of the databases that you want to synchronize
  • Hub Database: is one the synchronize Databases
  • Member database: another database in the data sync synchronization is member databases
  • Synchronization: Happened between Hub Database and member databases this means when you do change on one of the member databases the changes reflected on the other member databases through the Hub database
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Azure SQL Elastic Database Job Agents Configuration


Introduction

As Database administrator we know that SQL jobs managed by SQL Server agent services, but this concept on SQL Server on-premises, in Microsoft cloud we have another something called Azure SQL Elastic job. Before starting in the definition of it I highly recommend you to understand first what is Azure database deployment model options and How we can configure Azure single database, Azure elastic Pool database and Azure Database Managed Instance Check Below Articles 👇

In this article of today I will cover below points and these points from my view are the basic points still we have many others points in this subject and I will cover it in the upcoming posts, Keep Following me and if you are interested to learn more about Azure SQL Database check this link and if you are interested to prepare for Azure administrator certification AZ-103 or AZ-104 check this link

  • What is the Azure SQL Elastic Job?
  • Differences between Azure SQL Database Jobs and SQL Agent
  • Azure SQL Elastic Database jobs Component
  • Configuration Prerequisites
  • Azure SQL Elastic Job Full Configuration (8 Steps)
  • Review the Elastic Job Configuration
  • References
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Azure SQL Database Managed Instance Fundamental


SQL Server Managed instance is one of the Azure SQL deployment model options and it is providing 100 % Compatibility with SQL Server on-premises so managed instance it the best migration option when you need to migrate the on-premises database without changing any configuration or losing any features not supported by Azure Single database and Azure SQL Database elastic pool. IF you need to know more information about Azure Single database and Azure elastic pool check this post and if you are interested and preparing for azure administrator AZ-103 certification check this link

  • Azure SQL Manged instance Tips
  • Differences between SQL Server On-Premises and Azure SQL Managed instance
  • Azure Managed instance Service Tier
  • Azure SQL Managed instance Security
  • References
Azure Deployment Model Options
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