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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

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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Introducing elastic database pools in SQL Database

The SQL Database elastic pool is a cost-effective solution for managing and scaling a group or a pool of SQL databases, with a utilization pattern characterized by low average utilization and infrequent spikes.

All databases in an elastic database pool:

  • Belong to one Azure SQL server.
  • Share a set amount of compute resources indexed by eDTUs (Elastic DTUs) in the DTU purchasing model and vCores in the vCore purchasing model.
  • Share a set amount of elastic database pool storage.
  • Have a price based on the amount of elastic database pool resources and not individual databases.
  • Can scale up to the given maximum amount of eDTUs or vCores.
  • Optionally, have a guaranteed minimum number of eDTUs or vCores.

Let's look at a scenario that highlights when we should think about using an SQL Database elastic pool.

When should you consider elastic database pools?

In Chapter 7, Scalability, we worked...

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Ahmad Osama

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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