#read-scale-out

Offloading Read-Heavy Workloads with Azure SQL Database Read Scale-Out

Learn how to offload read-heavy queries to a secondary replica in Azure SQL Database using ApplicationIntent=ReadOnly to reduce primary node CPU and memory contention.

database-architectureazure-sql-databaseazuresqldatabaseTasadduq Burneyowner20K rep · 08 Aug 2026, 16:48 UTC