azure-sql-database

How do I resize my SQL Azure Web Edition 5 GB database to a 1 GB database? I no longer need the extra capacity and do not want to be billed at the higher rate. I don't see anything in the Management Portal and a quick web search also turned up nothing. David Makogon I answered a similar question here . It should be as simple as running an ALTER DATABASE command: ALTER DATABASE MyDatabase MODIFY (EDITION='WEB', MAXSIZE=1GB) Just keep this in mind: As long as your usage is <= 1GB, you'll be billed at the 1GB rate. Billing is monthly but amortized daily. So you actually don't need to reduce your

We have a geo-replicated database in SQL Azure (Premium) and are wondering if we are pointing to the South Central US database that is the master, if that goes down do we have to manually change our connection strings in our code (C# .Net / Entity Framework 6) to point to the new database in say North US? We are looking for a way to have a single connection string and then Azure do the under the covers to now point to the new database if the master ever goes down. Is that possible? Update on method followed: so I read this that we have to manually go into a web.config file on a production

This is a long question, but I would be very very thankful if I can get some good advice on this. In short, I’m looking for a good approach for version upgrade of MS SQL database schema that also demands data being moved from deleted tables into new tables. I think Stack Overflow is the most appropriate place for this question (not dba.stackexchange.com) because at its core, this is an issue for .NET developers using Entity Framework, and the database parts of this consists mostly of auto-generated sql scripts. Background A .NET application and SQL database is running in Azure (The application

I am using Entity Framework (v4.0) to connect to SQL Azure (I have the March SDK installed) and getting a InvalidOperationException when trying to query a table. The message of the exception is Invalid attempt to read when no data is present. and the stack trace clearly shows that this is failing internally in EF when it attempts to get the column header: at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader.ReadColumnHeader(Int32 i) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader.IsDBNull(Int32 i) at lambda_method(Closure , Shaper ) at System.Data.Common.Internal.Materialization.Coordinator`1.ReadNextElement(Shaper

We decided to use a micro-orm against an Azure Database. As our business only needs "inserts" and "selects", we decided to suppress all code-managed SqlTransaction (no concurrency issues on data). Then, we noticed that our instance of Azure Database responded very slowly. The " rpc completed " event occured in delays that are hundreds times the time needed to run a simple sql statement. Next, we benchmarked our code with EF6 and we saw that the server responded very quickly. As EF6 implements a built-in transaction, we decided to restore the SqlTransaction (ReadCommited) on the micro-orm and

I designed an entity data model with two entities between which there exists a many to many relationship. When I auto-generate SQL code to generate the database for this model, it has generated a table (two columns) to keep track of this many-to-many association. However, this table has a PRIMARY KEY NONCLUSTERED on both columns. Since I want this to work on SQL Azure which doesn't like tables with only nonclustered indices, I was wondering whether there is a good way of telling the code generation to generate clustered indices? Thanks! I have another file called Model.indexes.sql that

I would like to transfer my existing SQL Azure location to other one, but I think there is no functionality right now to do so on the management portal of Azure. I just googled it and found one link http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ssdsgetstarted/thread/e6c961cc-5eea-4f07-82c9-a8805d367b05 that says I need to use the data sync option in Azure's portal but I don't have that feature enabled in my Azure portal. Also if I do use that option, is there any charge for it? Finally, are there any other option that is possible for moving the SQL Azure location? Craig I think you can use new