Mustafa EL-Masry #Azure, Azure Data Studio

How to Manage Azure with PowerShell Command from Azure Data Studio


All of us know Azure Data Studio is new Microsoft tool like SQL Server Management Studio but with highly advanced features like Azure Data Studio Notebook, one of the features that you can PowerShell extension on Azure data Studio to connect to your Azure Portal and do your homework easily, Azure data studio PowerShell extension supported PowerShell and Cloud Shell (CLI) AZ Command, did you imagine this powerful tool from one place you can write your T-SQL, PowerShell, and CLI and you can manage your SQL Server on Premises and your Azure SQL and the other Azure services, all of these services and these languages from one place Using Microsoft Azure data Studio 🚀💪😱

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Managing Azure With PowerShell From Azure Data Studio

Connect to Azure with PowerShell from Azure Data Studio

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Moving Database Files on SQL Server Always On


I think all of us know how to move files for SQL Server databases from disk to another disk but today I will explain how we can do it on SQL Server always on to reduce the downtime and taking new backup to return the database to always-on again. Let us start on the technical steps.

  • Preparations Steps
  • Check the current DB Files locations
  • Check Always on Health Status
  • Disable all backup jobs on Primary and secondary servers
  • Suspend the data movement on Secondary server
  • Remove Database from Primary server
  • Update DB files by new disk location on secondary server
  • Stop SQL Server instance on Secondary server
  • Move (CUT) DB Files from old location to new Location (Past)
  • Start the SQL Server instance again
  • Verify the DB File Location Using T-SQL on the post
  • Join the DB to availability group from Primary server
  • Check SQL Server always on Health Status Using T-SQL on the post
  • Enable the SQL Server Jobs\
  • Failover the SQL Server for Primary (X) to Secondary Server (Y) and do the same steps on (X)

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