There is a new DMV currently in preview which returns information about backups of Azure SQL databases except for the Hyperscale tier. Microsoft official documentation is here. If you run the example query as-is from the above documentation some of the columns do not make sense. Instead, use this query where I am joining with […]
In this blog post, I discussed some facts about Azure SQL Database Serverless. If someone wants to avoid those limitations and disable ‘Auto-pause,’ how costly is it? Suppose a serverless database is not paused and configured with 4 max vCores and 0.5 min vCores corresponding to 2.1 GB min memory. Then the minimum compute bill […]
Serverless is a compute tier for single databases in Azure SQL Database that automatically scales compute based on workload demand and bills for the amount of compute used per second. The serverless compute tier also automatically pauses databases during inactive periods when only storage is billed and automatically resumes databases when activity returns. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/database/serverless-tier-overview Few […]
