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How do I scale my Azure database?

Jim Brown

How do I scale my Azure database?

Azure SQL Database offers the ability to dynamically scale your databases:

  1. With a single database, you can use either DTU or vCore models to define maximum amount of resources that will be assigned to each database.
  2. Elastic pools enable you to define maximum resource limit per group of databases in the pool.

How do I increase the size of my database?

Expand Databases, right-click the database to increase, and then click Properties. In Database Properties, select the Files page. To increase the size of an existing file, increase the value in the Initial Size (MB) column for the file. You must increase the size of the database by at least 1 megabyte.

How do I increase allocated space in Azure SQL?

Allow data growth in an elastic pool when the file space allocated for its databases reaches the pool max size. Allow decreasing the max size of a single database or elastic pool. Allow changing a single database or elastic pool to a different service tier or performance tier with a lower max size.

How do I autoscale a database?

How to autoscale your SQL database with Azure Data Factory?

  1. Step1: Write query to rescale your database.
  2. Step 2: Create a stored procedure.
  3. Step 3: Create a pipeline in Azure Data Factory.
  4. Step 4: Schedule the pipeline in Azure Data Factory.
  5. Step 5: Scale your database down.

Is Azure SQL Database scalable?

Azure SQL database is scalable database platform as a service that enables you to easily increase or remove resources in your database, offload queries to secondary nodes or implement full sharding solution.

What is the maximum size of SQL database?

524,272 terabytes
Database Engine objects

SQL Server Database Engine object Maximum sizes/numbers SQL Server (64-bit)
Database size 524,272 terabytes
Databases per instance of SQL Server 32,767
Filegroups per database 32,767
Filegroups per database for memory-optimized data 1

How do you shrink a database?

To shrink a database

  1. In Object Explorer, connect to an instance of the SQL Server Database Engine, and then expand that instance.
  2. Expand Databases, and then right-click the database that you want to shrink.
  3. Point to Tasks, point to Shrink, and then click Database. Database.
  4. Click OK.

What is the current limitation of the size of SQL Azure DB?

Up to 280, unless the instance storage size or Azure Premium Disk storage allocation space limit has been reached. 32,767 files per database, unless the instance storage size limit has been reached. Limited to currently available instance storage size (max 2 TB – 8 TB) and Azure Premium Disk storage allocation space.