SQLBits 2020

Yes, You Should Monitor Azure SQL Database

Learn what is necessary to keep an eye on your Azure SQL Database in order to better tune it and reduce costs.

Since Azure SQL Database is online and fully managed by Microsoft, there’s just no need to monitor any more, right? Wrong. Monitoring Azure SQL Database is still a necessary part of understanding how your system is behaving. This session will show you the important metrics that you need to track on your Azure SQL Databases. Learn how you can better support and maintain your cloud-based offerings through tools and mechanisms both familiar and new. Monitoring Azure SQL Database ensures that you have the information needed to make necessary decisions about your databases in a timely and accurate manner.

Speaker

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).

Grant Fritchey's Sessions

Managing the Challenge of Monitoring Growing, Multi-platform Database Estates

The New Database Landscape - Revealing Shifts and Charting the Next Horizon

Fundamentals of Git

Efficiency up, failed releases down; compliant production data for your test and dev environments

Benefits of Using Version Control In Database Development

Yes, You Should Monitor Azure SQL Database

SQL Injection: How it Works, How to Stop It

Learn to Read Execution Plans

Environment Provisioning: The Third Age

DevOps and Data

Exploring Execution Plans

Statistics, Row Counts, Execution Plans, and Query Tuning

Faster Provisioning with SQL Clone

Automating Your Database Deployments

Getting Started Reading Execution Plans

Monitoring Windows Azure SQL Server VMs and SQL Databases

Query Tuning in the Clouds