sql-database-monitor-and-scale-pool-powershell.md

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title: PowerShell example-monitor-scale-SQL elastic pool-Azure SQL Database | Microsoft Docs description: Azure PowerShell example script to monitor and scale a SQL elastic pool in Azure SQL Database services: sql-database ms.service: sql-database ms.subservice: performance ms.custom: ms.devlang: PowerShell ms.topic: sample author: CarlRabeler ms.author: carlrab ms.reviewer: manager: craigg ms.date: 09/14/2018

Use PowerShell to monitor and scale a SQL elastic pool in Azure SQL Database

This PowerShell script example monitors the performance metrics of an elastic pool, scales it to a higher compute size, and creates an alert rule on one of the performance metrics.

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If you choose to install and use the PowerShell locally, this tutorial requires the Azure PowerShell module version 5.7.0 or later. Run Get-Module -ListAvailable AzureRM to find the version. If you need to upgrade, see Install Azure PowerShell module. If you are running PowerShell locally, you also need to run Connect-AzureRmAccount to create a connection with Azure.

Sample script

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Clean up deployment

After the script sample has been run, the following command can be used to remove the resource group and all resources associated with it.

Remove-AzureRmResourceGroup -ResourceGroupName $resourcegroupname

Script explanation

This script uses the following commands. Each command in the table links to command specific documentation.

Command	Notes
New-AzureRmResourceGroup	Creates a resource group in which all resources are stored.
New-AzureRmSqlServer	Creates a logical server that hosts a database or elastic pool.
New-AzureRmSqlElasticPool	Creates an elastic pool within a logical server.
New-AzureRmSqlDatabase	Creates a database in a logical server as a single or a pooled database.
Get-AzureRmMetric	Shows the size usage information for the database.
Add-AzureRMMetricAlertRule	Adds or updates a metric-based alert rule.
Set-AzureRmSqlElasticPool	Updates elastic pool properties
Add-AzureRMMetricAlertRule	Sets an alert rule to automatically monitor DTUs in the future.
Remove-AzureRmResourceGroup	Deletes a resource group including all nested resources.

Next steps

For more information on the Azure PowerShell, see Azure PowerShell documentation.

Additional SQL Database PowerShell script samples can be found in the Azure SQL Database PowerShell scripts.