Episode

Azure SQL Capacity Planning: Overview

Whether migrating an existing application or designing a brand new one, capacity planning process plays a critical role. Learn how to navigate across Azure SQL Database options like hardware generation, service and compute tiers and instance sizing principles, trying to find the sweet spot between performance, functionalities and costs, in the first episode of this three-part series.

[00:58] What is capacity planning

[02:04] Azure SQL Database dimensions to consider

[03:30] Deployment options

[04:50]Purchasing models

[06:25] Service tiers

[07:55] Compute sizes and resource limits

Additional Resources:
Choose between the vCore and DTU purchasing models
vCore model overview
Service tiers in the DTU-based purchase model
Migrate Azure SQL Database from the DTU-based model to the vCore-based model
Query Performance Insight for Azure SQL Database
Troubleshoot with Intelligent Insights