The cloud has become an important option for businesses of all sizes today. Even server applications like SQL Server, that many organizations once considered on-premises only, have gradually been ...

Managed Instance, Cosmos DB, SQL Azure, Azure Table Storage, Databricks, Fabric -- Microsoft, as we all know, struggles to name its products clearly. Unclear naming can lead to customer confusion. I ...

Azure SQL Data Warehouse is a managed Data Warehouse-as-a Service (DWaaS) offering provided by Microsoft Azure. A data warehouse is a federated repository for data collected by an enterprise's ...

Microsoft's Azure SQL Database is getting an expanded range of performance tiers, upping the Standard tier maximum DTUs to ...

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 ...

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Microsoft announced Azure SQL Database upgrades on Thursday that promise to bring the cloud-based database service close to lock-step parity with on-premises Microsoft SQL Server capabilities.

At Microsoft's Ignite digital event this week, the company is announcing the private preview of SQL Server 2022, the next version of its three-decades-old relational database management system (RDBMS) ...

The cloud is becoming increasingly distributed, with container technologies allowing easy deployment of what had been cloud functionality to devices at the edge of the network. What began with ...

The ability to run Azure SQL Managed Instance -- a cloud version of SQL Server -- on non-Azure clouds, and even on-premises, will be generally available and production-ready on July 30th, 2021. In ...