Grant Fritchey
scarydba.com
Grant Fritchey, SQL Server MVP, works for Redgate Software as a Product Advocate. He is the author of the books SQL Server Execution Plans (Simple-Talk) and SQL Server Query Performance Tuning (Apress).
SQLBits 2014
Monitoring Windows Azure SQL Server VMs and SQL Databases
Once you've decided to move to Azure with any of your databases, you're going to need to know how they're performing, this session shows you.
Using a virtual machine divorces you from the underlying hardware and makes understanding what is happening on your systems more difficult. Take that same situation and move it into the cloud on Azure systems and the difficult can seem almost impossible. Understanding how you can monitor performance in the Azure environment, what works, what doesn't and what's a lie, will help you to better understand how your systems are performing. You'll better be able to identify and fix bottlenecks in order to ensure necessary performance of your systems that are hosted out on the cloud. We'll cover the different methods you have for SQL Server on a VM and for Windows Azure SQL Database so that you can begin monitoring your own cloud-based systems as soon as possible.