Comments on: Index Maintenance: Automating Azure with Elastic Jobs

By: fnfOzvSR

fnfOzvSR — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 18:03:32 +0000

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By: Randy Knight

Randy Knight — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 19:26:45 +0000

In reply to Takamatsu. Thanks for the feedback. We will look into updating this for the new modules.

By: Takamatsu

Takamatsu — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 02:06:22 +0000

Hi Scott,

Is it possible to get this updated for the latest modules and Azure updates in current day? I tried this script and i’m getting errors like:

Creating logins and users…
Invoke-SqlCmd : The term ‘Invoke-SqlCmd’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try
again.
At line:40 char:1
+ Invoke-SqlCmd @params
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (Invoke-SqlCmd:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

and having to run Import-Module Az. with -verbose tag. I’m sure there is more since the script is even failing to connect to my tenant given the tenant ID. I would appreciate it very much thanks!

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 23:41:10 +0000

In reply to Philip. Hi Philip, good question. I do not know, but I will test and let you know.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 23:40:16 +0000

In reply to JB. I haven't tried it but I will and report back.

By: Philip

Philip — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 16:10:36 +0000

Hi Scott, can elastic job handle adding new databases without having to roll out security privileges to the new database so, that operations are seamless like on-premise? We have found that the index maintenance fails until we add the required security privileges to the new database even though the credential has administration permissions.

By: JB

JB — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 12:45:46 +0000

Hi Scott, Is this still working in the released version of Elastic Jobs? Having some trouble following your guide…

By: Kunal Rathi

Kunal Rathi — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 13:38:20 +0000

Azure Elastic Jobs is a great service for running SQL scripts on a bunch of Azure databases in one go. We have built a Visual Studio extension (Azure Elastic Jobs Manager) to manage Azure elastic jobs from your desktop.
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=AzureOps.elasticjobsmanager22

By: Scott Klein

Scott Klein — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 16:16:55 +0000

In reply to André. Hi Andre, given that Elastic Jobs is still in preview, it is hard to say. I would think Elastic Jobs will GA very soon, so after that we should know more about pricing.

By: André

André — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 11:39:53 +0000

Hi! I just finished reading the 3 posts and I really enjoyed it. I regret not finding it earlier because I already tested creating an Azure automation runbook and an Azure function and this would have saved me time.
In my case, the Azure automation runbook didn’t work because it exceeded 3 hours.
My question is about pricing, which one do you think is cheaper for index maintenance, elastic job or azure function premium plan?

Thank you