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Professional Azure SQL Database Administration
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Professional Azure SQL Database Administration

by Ahmad Osama
July 2018
Intermediate to advanced
398 pages
7h 43m
English
Packt Publishing
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Elastic Jobs

An elastic jobs runs as a cloud service in your Azure environment and allows you to execute a T-SQL script across one or more databases in:

  • An elastic pool
  • A shard set
  • A customer-defined database collection

Elastic jobs can be scheduled as and when required. Job successes and failures are logged for troubleshooting and you can also enable retries after a failure.

Use Cases

Elastic jobs are commonly used for:

  • Database Management and Maintenance

    Elastic jobs can be used for deploying schema changes across, running database maintenance jobs such as index rebuild, collecting database performance data, or updating reference data in a shard set.

  • Reporting

    Elastic jobs can be used to aggregate data from a shard set and into a single reporting table. ...

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ISBN: 9781789538854