title: Azure SqlException: Database on server is not currently available
body: <p>Our site has been running for a few weeks in Azure without getting this error:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>SqlException: Database 'database' on server 'server' is not currently
    available.  Please retry the connection later.  If the problem
    persists, contact customer support, and provide them the session
    tracing ID of 'guid'.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>It finally got that one day when there were a little over 2K of active (concurrent) users. This is <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12584227/azure-database-concurrent-usage-issues">the closest question</a> that I can find in SO. We are not using EF though but rather we're using Dapper. I'm out of ideas how to debug our application to find out what caused the issue, and it's even harder now that the issue has not come up for the past 2 days. I definitely need to be on the lookout and I need you guys, any tip, on where I should be looking into, what I need to do to determine the cause of the issue, and possibly fix it.</p>