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Auto Scale - Azure SQL elastic pools

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Sabrin_Alsahsah
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Dec 18, 2023
We have received a few inquiries and service requests regarding having an automatic scale for Azure SQL elastic pools and this blog was written based on the previous great blog article by our colleag...
Updated Dec 19, 2023
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m60freeman
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Jan 05, 2024

I wish Alerts supported an exclusion window. We do nightly statistics updates and don't want to auto scale just for that. We would ideally want to have the alert only fire from, for example, 7am to 7pm in the local time for the pool's region (setting the range is more complex than that because most regions cover several time zones).