(SQL) Tip of the Day: SQL Database Elastic Pools

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Today’s (SQL) Tip…

Recently announced at BUILD, Elastic Pools (codenamed Malmo) will allow you to shared DTU’s across a number of databases on your server. This is useful for applications where you have a separate database for every customer but don’t need a huge amount of resources to run each database. Or if you have a number of databases that spike in DTU usage for short amounts of time.

You can get more information here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/sql-database-elastic-pool/