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Reducing Azure Function Spend with Consumption Plans

A consumption based App Service Plan in Azure provides us with a pay-as-you-go model for Function usage. This can help reduce spend from Premium plans where those plans exceed the requirements of the function, for example low volume or intermittent work. Unfortunately you can’t move a Premium plan to Consumption based via the portal. Instead […]

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Retaining Job History in Managed Instances

In a Managed Instance, the SQL Agent job history is fixed at 1000 records or 100 records per job. This isn’t configurable like a regular SQL Server install. So how can we maintain a history of these if we want to retain those records? There are 3 approaches which could be worth considering. Two of […]

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Searching Azure Storage Containers with Powershell

Shifting from handling data on premises to Azure has been a real change of mindset. Whilst what I want to build may be similar, the how part is completely different. There’s a learning curve not just to the tooling but how you use it too. This is one of those instances. I had a storage container with files which […]