Kate Smith continues a series on elastic jobs in Azure SQL Database:
Having laid the conceptual groundwork for Elastic Jobs in two previous postings (1, 2), I am now going to create an elastic job and associated credentials using PowerShell. For this scenario, I have one or more databases with a table ‘T’ and statistics ‘tStats’. I want to enforce an update for these statistics every day. To do this, I need to check that my stats have been updated in the past day, and if not, update them. The T-SQL to update statistics on a table “T” with stats named “tStats” is simple:
Click through for the Powershell script.