Sunday 4 March 2018

Calculating DTU's for Azure SQL Database

One of my clients asked to calculate the DTU’s required for an existing database before migrating to Azure SQL Database. Pricing Azure SQL Database is different from traditional SQL Server licensing. Azure SQL Database pricing depends on the database service tier options ,such as Database Transaction units and the maximum size of the database.
Azure SQL Database offers Basic, Standard, Premium, and Premium RS service tiers for both single databases and elastic pools. The cost of Azure SQL Database directly relates to which tier and performance level you are using. To determine service tier and performance level and database throughput units (DTUs) with the help of Azure database DTU calculator.



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Configure Read only routing for an always on availability group

One of my friend sent an email with the requirement to load balance the traffic coming from application to secondary SQL Server replicas in always on availability group. Read-only routing refers to the ability of SQL Server to route qualifying read-only connection requests to an available Always On readable secondary replica. The advantage of Setting the readable secondary as Read-Intent Only will allow the secondary server to serve the read-only workload only if the connection string of the application contains Application Intent=Readonly parameter. 

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Ganapathi varma Chekuri
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