Keep in mind the amount of DTUs you have available. I feel like that contributed a fair bit to that price. I know for a fact that we can have...

I think that you can get discounts like they mention here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/dev-test/. We have a Microsoft rep that we use on a regular basis to help out with pricing...

Is your team member asking about logging from an application or do they want the database to do logging of operations against it? If you are looking to do logging...

I've not personally done this, but according to this article it sounds like you have some control over this in the portal, powershell, and even in SSMS: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-database/sql-database-auditing

Hopefully...

What you're looking for can mostly be found in the portal: https://portal.azure.com. In there, you can find:

• The over all DTU consumption of your database on the Overview tab and...

It sounds like you might not be able to actually update an existing column to add encryption. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sqlsecurity/2015/07/28/encrypting-existing-data-with-always-encrypted/

The first paragraph seems to have some pertinent information on it:

Hey ggoble,

It's my understanding that you want to have resource groups with your systems that are directly dependent on each other. So you have it right when you...

If you're using Basic, you could be running into a resource constraint. Have you tried looking at the Azure portal to see whether memory, CPU, or IO are getting pegged?

Have you checked the query plan or index fragmentation yet? Those 50000 records might have pushed the fragmentation to the point where it might start running scans instead of seeks.

How many records did you insert before running the SP another time? If it was a significant amount, then it will greatly affect index fragmentation. Rebuilding the index for the...

A decent place to start is in the Azure portal itself. You can see some of the basic stats there as well as their Azure SQL-specific unit of performance measurement,...

Web Apps are under App Services now.

I would also consider looking into Azure Functions. They should be a bit more lightweight for an agent job. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/functions-overview.

Hope...