Azure SQL Elastic Pool – Database Size

I mentioned in a past article, regarding database sizes within an elastic pool:

“No policies limit an individual database to take more storage although a database maximum size can be set on a per-database basis.”

I’m going to focus on that in this article.

An Azure SQL Database resource has...

Azure SQL Elastic Pool - ARM Templates

In my last article, I covered Azure SQL Elastic Pool.  In this one I cover how to provision it using ARM templates.

As of today (December 2016), the documentation about Azure SQL Elastic Pool provisioning via ARM templates is…  not existing.

Searching for it I was able...

Azure SQL Elastic Pool Overview

What is Azure SQL Elastic Pool and what it brings to Azure SQL Database, the SQL Azure Platform as a Service (PaaS).

Traditional model

Let’s look at how Azure SQL works without elastic pools first.

Azure SQL Database comes with...

Moving existing workloads to Azure

Applications born in the cloud can take full advantage of the cloud and the agility it brings.

But there are a lot of existing solutions out there that weren’t born in the cloud.

In this article I want to sketch a very high level approach on how...

Nuget WordPress REST API – Demo App

I’ve had a few requests to explain how to use the Nuget WordPress REST API beyond authentication.

In order to do this, I added a Demo App under source control.

The Nuget package source code is available at http://wordpressrestapi.codeplex.com/ and if you download the code, you’ll see there are 3 projects:

• WordpressRestApi:  essentially the Nuget package
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