Azure SQL Database – General Overview – Refresh Part 1
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Azure SQL Database – General Overview – Refresh Part 1

I see the other contributions as a personal refresh of my knowledge of the Azure SQL Database and all its numerous features. After a long time, it was necessary to deal with it in detail again and show my own experience with learning that “writing down” helps remember the content and essential points. So I’ll just…

Pause / Resume / Backup an Azure SQL Database with Powershell – Part 3
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Pause / Resume / Backup an Azure SQL Database with Powershell – Part 3

Many services in Azure allow certain cost savings through automation, this can also be achieved with the Platform-as-a-Service “Azure SQL Database”, this is what this blog post is all about. Quite as simple as e.g. with the Azure Analysis Service it is not because actually there is no pause-resume functionality – here comes the backup…

Resize an Azure SQL Database with Powershell – Part 2
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Resize an Azure SQL Database with Powershell – Part 2

In the first part of my Azure SQL Database Powershell Automation series I showed how to create the resource group, the logical SQL Server and the corresponding database, I would like to show you how to implement a resize of the performance level of this database. Why should I want to resize a database? Upwards…

First steps with Azure SQL Database and Powershell – Part 1
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First steps with Azure SQL Database and Powershell – Part 1

In addition to the ability to deploy a virtual server on a SQL server in Azure, there is also the “simpler” method to deploy only one database on demand => the Azure SQL Database. This database-as-a-service is also very good and easy to use for a variety of applications, although there are a lot of…