azure-sql-database

I have a stored procedure that I want it to run in every mid nigh but my data base is in aZure How can I schedule a task using sql agent? Azure Automation: Your SQL Agent in the Cloud: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-automation-your-sql-agent-in-the-cloud/ make a small powershell script and schedule it in the azure dashboard. You can use Azure Web Job and create a console App that just call your stored procedure and schedule it to run every mid night. Here's a sample of how to use Azure Web Job: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/web-sites-create-web-jobs/

To deal with SQL timeouts I'm trying to use SqlAzureExecutionStrategy ( https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/dn456835.aspx ) The problem I am running into is it prevents "user initiated transactions" which seem to be the recommended way to implement "with (nolock)" in EF ( http://www.hanselman.com/blog/GettingLINQToSQLAndLINQToEntitiesToUseNOLOCK.aspx , NOLOCK with Linq to SQL ). example code public AspnetUser GetAspnetUserByUserName(string userName) { using (var tx = new TransactionScope(TransactionScopeOption.Required, new TransactionOptions() { IsolationLevel = IsolationLevel

This question already has answers here : Migrating ASP.NET Membership Database to SQL Azure (3 answers) Possible Duplicate: Migrating ASP.NET Membership Database to SQL Azure How do I run aspnet_regsql on sql azure database? I made it work the hard way, by exporting all db objects over. However, I seriously believe that there's an easier way. Please help. AvkashChauhan When you run aspnet_regsql on sql azure database, the error occurs only because SQL Azure does not support the USE statement to switch database contexts when it executes commands against SQL Azure databases. To work around this,

is that true that SQL Azure rebuilds / reorganizes index automatically? We have a database on Sql Azure and experiencing performance degradation and I suppose this is a urban-legend. Can you help me? Thanks, Marco SQL Azure does not rebuild indexes automatically while the statistics are updated automatically. If you have a specific reason to force the rebuild it, you have to directly issue the command. This nice post helps you create a script to dynamically rebuild all indexes in a SQL Azure db . Sql Azure offers few nice amenities with it, as follows: Intelligent Performance Performance

I need to replace my old admin login/user with a new one. I tried the following: CREATE LOGIN newDbAdmin WITH password='123isTheBestPasswordEver' CREATE USER newDbAdmin With this I'm then also able to log into Azure SQL via Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio. However it doesn't seem to be an admin level login+user. I'm unable to create tables and a few other things that admins can do. I suspect I need to GRANT permissions to certain schemas (dbo?) or something along those lines ... So, what's the right way to create user+login on Azure SQL with the same level of privileges as the original

I'm querying Azure table storage using the Azure Storage Explorer. I want to find all messages that contain the given text, like this in T-SQL: message like '%SysFn%' Executing the T-SQL gives "An error occurred while processing this request" What is the equivalent of this query in Azure? There's no direct equivalent, as there is no wildcard searching. All supported operations are listed here . You'll see eq, gt, ge, lt, le, etc. You could make use of these, perhaps, to look for specific ranges. Depending on your partitioning scheme, you may be able to select a subset of entities based on