One of the Azure SQL-related announcements that did not get a lot of publicity at May's Microsoft Build conference was the Azure SQL Database local database experience. With all the hype around SQL ...

I've been playing around with the new Microsoft service, currently in preview and it's time to show off what it can do. Have you ever struggled with a database performance problem or ever struggled to ...

When you need a SQL database fast, the cloud is the best way to go. Azure provides a SQL database as a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that eliminates the need to get an entire SQL Server up and running.

At the Ignite conference today, Microsoft made a series of announcements about Azure databases. It announced a brand-new Azure database called HorizonDB, which is a fully managed PostgreSQL database ...

Microsoft will retire SCOM SQL monitoring packs in 2027, pushing customers toward Azure Monitor and cloud billing.

SQL Server, Microsoft's flagship operational database, has been around for over a quarter century now. That has meant successive waves of innovation for the platform, but has also made for ...

The October release of Azure Data Studio (formerly called SQL Operations Studio) includes preview support for SQL Server 2019 and more. Azure Data Studio, which was introduced last year as SQL ...

Druva, the leading provider of data security, is building on its strategic relationship with Microsoft and unveiling comprehensive support for Azure SQL and Azure Blob Storage. Aiming to better ...

Azure Cosmos DB, Microsoft’s cloud-scale distributed database, is designed to offer the APIs and the storage model you need for your applications. Want a NoSQL database? Use the MongoDB or Cassandra ...

One way that organizations are storing data in the cloud is by moving their databases to the cloud. What once meant building an entire physical server, patching it, installing software like Microsoft ...