904, 2019

Monitor service issues with Azure Service Health

By |April 9th, 2019|Azure How To, Cloud Automation, Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Platforms, IT Management, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

This blog post covers how to use Microsoft’s built-in Azure Service Health personalized dashboards and external services to stay informed about and take action to mitigate Azure issues that could affect your applications.
How to monitor Azure service issues
You may already be familiar with the Azure Status Page which provides a global view of the health […]

2603, 2019

How to scale read workloads in Azure MySQL

By |March 26th, 2019|Cloud Platforms, IT Management, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

Read replicas are now generally available to all Azure Database for MySQL users. They are specially designed to make it easy to horizontally scale out beyond a single database server. This may be useful in applications that have more read operations than write ones such as BI reporting applications.

This feature enables continuous asynchronous replication of […]

2102, 2019

PostgreSQL Read Replicas Preview

By |February 21st, 2019|Azure News, General, IT Management, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

This blog post is about the Read Replicas for Azure Database for PostgreSQL which Microsoft recently announced in a preview.

Azure Database for PostgreSQL now supports continuous, asynchronous data replication from the master Azure Database for PostgreSQL server to up to five Azure Database for PostgreSQL servers located in the same region. These read replicas allow […]

2201, 2019

Set alerts on metrics with Azure Database for MariaDB

By |January 22nd, 2019|Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

 

With the recent announcement of the general availability of MariaDB we would like to share some best practices for alerting on the most commonly monitored metrics for the database.

Monitoring databases is an essential part of maintaining server reliability, availability, and performance and Microsoft provides various metrics for MariaDB to get insights into the behavior of the server. Azure Portal, as […]

2811, 2018

Azure SQL Data Warehouse improves the data querying performance

By |November 28th, 2018|Azure How To, IT Management, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

 

Azure SQL Data Warehouse showed to be a fast and flexible analytics platform. Enhancements in the distributed query execution layer as per the recent experience result in the significant query performance improvements for Azure SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW).

I/O bandwidth to storage and repartitioning speed (shuffle speed) determine the analytics workload performance. In this article, we are […]