Troubleshooting NSGs using Diagnostic Logs

I’ve wrote about how to use Network Security Group (NSG) before.

Chances are, once you get a complicated enough set of rules in a NSG, you’ll find yourself with NSGs that do not do what you think they should do.

Troubleshooting NSGs isn’t trivial.

I’ll try to give some guidance here but...

Azure SQL Elastic Pool – Moving databases across pools using PowerShell

I’ve written a bit about Azure SQL Elastic Pool lately:  an overview, about ARM template and about database size.

One of the many great features of Azure SQL Elastic Pool is that like Azure SQL Database (standalone), we can change the eDTU capacity of the pool...

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...