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Ahmad Osama
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Ahmad Osama works for Pitney Bowes Pvt. Ltd. as a technical architect and is a former Microsoft Data Platform MVP. In his day job, he works on developing and maintaining high performant, on-premises and cloud SQL Server OLTP environments as well as deployment and automating tasks using PowerShell. When not working, Ahmad blogs at DataPlatformLabs and can be found glued to his Xbox.
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Shashikant Shakya
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Shashikant Shakya is a passionate technologist with decades of experience in the sphere of databases. He works for Microsoft as a senior support engineer. In his day job, he works on Azure SQL Database, Azure Database for MySQL, and PostgreSQL. Apart from his work, he is a regular speaker at the SQLBangalore community group.
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Elastic database jobs

Elastic database jobs or Azure-hosted elastic database jobs can be used to schedule a T-SQL task such as index maintenance against an SQL database, a group of SQL Database elastic database pools or an SQL Database shard, all databases in an elastic database pool, a shard map, or a server across different Azure subscriptions.

An elastic database job can span multiple databases in the same subscription or in different subscriptions.

Figure 8.14 illustrates the different components of an elastic database job:

Different components of an elastic database job

Figure 8.14: Different components of an elastic database job

Let's discuss some of the components in the diagram.

Elastic job agent

An elastic job agent is an Azure resource that's responsible for creating, executing, and managing jobs.

Job database

An existing clean (blank) SQL database of the Standard (S0) or a higher-performance tier is used to store the job definitions, job status, elastic job agent...

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Ahmad Osama works for Pitney Bowes Pvt. Ltd. as a technical architect and is a former Microsoft Data Platform MVP. In his day job, he works on developing and maintaining high performant, on-premises and cloud SQL Server OLTP environments as well as deployment and automating tasks using PowerShell. When not working, Ahmad blogs at DataPlatformLabs and can be found glued to his Xbox.
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Shashikant Shakya

Shashikant Shakya is a passionate technologist with decades of experience in the sphere of databases. He works for Microsoft as a senior support engineer. In his day job, he works on Azure SQL Database, Azure Database for MySQL, and PostgreSQL. Apart from his work, he is a regular speaker at the SQLBangalore community group.
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