Azure SQL Elastic Pool

Azure SQL Database is PAAS service, It has  Azure SQL Server and inside this SQL Server we have SQL databases.  The costing for SQL Server Database is based on size and DTU. The Edition (Basic, Standard and Premium) & Pricing Tier (DTUs) as used for costing.

Database Transaction Units (DTU)

Microsoft guarantees a certain level of resources for that database (independent of any other database in the azure cloud) and providing a predictable level of performance. This amount of resources is calculated as a number of Database Transaction Units or DTUs, and is a blended measure of CPU, memory , I/O (data and transaction log IO).

DTUs are most useful for understanding the relative amount of resources between Azure SQL Databases at different performance levels of a database equates to doubling the set of resource available to that database. For e.g. a premium P11 database with 1750 DTUs provides 350x more DTU Compute power than a basic database with 5 DTUs.

For existing Azure SQL Database workload, you can use SQL database Query performance insight to understand your database resource consumption to get deeper insight to understand your database resource consumption (DTUs). You can also use sys.dm_db_resource_stats DMV to get the resource consumption information for the last one hour. Also can use sys.resource_stats for last 14 days.

Elastic Database Transaction Units (eDTUs)

If there are more than 1 database and uses of these Database are different then Microsoft has option to share the resources between these databases. Elastic pool is an option on SQL Database Server that shares a pool of resources among those database. The shared resources in an elastic pool measured by elastic Database Transaction Units or eDTUs.

Powershell to create Elastic pool

Powershell parameters

$Location='Southeast Asia'

$ResourceGroupName='RG'

$SQLServerName='sql-server'

$DBName ='SQLDB1'

$EPoolName='SQLEpool'

$AdminLogin ='XXXXX'

$AdminPassword ='xxxxxxxxx'

$StartIP='219.91.0.0'

$EndIP='219.91.255.255'

First of all login to Azure subscription

 #********** Login to Azure account **********

Login-AzureRmAccount

Select-AzureRmSubscription -SubscriptionName '<<Your Azure Subscription Name>>'

# Create new Elastic pool

$EPool = New-AzureRmSqlElasticPool -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroupName `

    -ServerName $SQLServerName `

    -ElasticPoolName $EPoolName `

    -Edition "Standard" `

    -Dtu 50 `

    -DatabaseDtuMin 10 `

# Move the database to the  pool

$Database = Set-AzureRmSqlDatabase -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroupName `

    -ServerName $SQLServerName `

    -DatabaseName $DBName `

    -ElasticPoolName $EPoolName