Azure Database Performance Tuning

This lesson focuses on maximizing the performance of hardware and infrastructure relating to database servers. You will learn the best ways to improve an SQL server's performance and that of its databases through infrastructure choice and configuration settings.

Learning Objectives

• Learn how to set up disks for maximum performance
• Understand how to boost file performance and how to use instant file initialization
• Understand how to optimize TempDB and choose the right VM for your workloads
• Learn how to manage an instance's resources
• Learn how to configure your database as well as your SQL Server system accounts
• Understand how to use Intelligent Query Processing to optimize database performance
• Understand the benefits of using Azure SQL Serverless

Intended Audience

• Database administrators
• Solutions architects
• Anyone interesting in improving the performance of their database

Prerequisites

To the most out of this lesson, you will need to be familiar with basic Azure concepts, have some knowledge of computer hard drives and networking, and be familiar with databases and their servers.