title: Unable to enable Read Scale-out on Azure SQL
body: <p>I have a Premium Azure SQL database which I want to enable Read Scale-out for.</p>
  
  <p>I followed the instructions here: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-database/sql-database-read-scale-out" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-database/sql-database-read-scale-out</a></p>
  
  <p>I have tried both the REST API (using resources.azure.com) and the Powershell API</p>
  
  <pre><code>Set-AzureRmSqlDatabase -DatabaseName "dbname" -ServerName "server" -ResourceGroupName "myresourcegroup" -ReadScale Enabled
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This takes a few seconds then returns the following:</p>
  
  <pre><code>ResourceGroupName             : myresourcegroup
  ServerName                    : server
  DatabaseName                  : dbname
  Location                      : westeurope
  DatabaseId                    : &lt;guid&gt;
  Edition                       : Premium
  CollationName                 : SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
  CatalogCollation              :
  MaxSizeBytes                  : 536870912000
  Status                        : Online
  CreationDate                  : 17/11/2016 07:42:26
  CurrentServiceObjectiveId     : 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
  CurrentServiceObjectiveName   : PX
  RequestedServiceObjectiveName : PX
  RequestedServiceObjectiveId   :
  ElasticPoolName               :
  EarliestRestoreDate           : 25/10/2018 00:00:00
  Tags                          :
  ResourceId                    : /subscriptions/mysub/resourceGroups/myresourcegroup/providers/Microsoft.Sql/servers/server/databases/dbname
  CreateMode                    :
  ReadScale                     : Disabled
  ZoneRedundant                 : False
  Capacity                      : XXXX
  Family                        :
  SkuName                       : Premium
  LicenseType                   :
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I get similar results with the REST API.</p>
  
  <p>I have raised a support ticket with Microsoft but has anyone encountered this before? Am I running the wrong command?</p>