Andrea Allred wants to know who’s doing what on this system:
I needed to collect sp_WhoIsActive into a table, but the twist was that it is on my Azure Managed Database, so I had to get creative with how I did it. We needed an Azure Pipeline to run it, but we wanted to record it every minute and firing a pipeline every minute adds up fast. So we decided that we would kick it off once an hour and have the process wait for a minute and then fire until the hour ended. Then it fire again at the top of the next hour and the same process would happen.
That’s an interesting way to do it. Another alternative might have been an Azure function app, which you could schedule to run every minute. I think that’d be a lot less expensive than running an Azure Pipeline, and this goes to show you that there are many ways to solve the same problem in Azure.