Microsoft has just added support for query hints to Azure SQL Database, giving database administrators a powerful tool to manage the performance of ISV application code. Here's how it works.

Copilot for Azure SQL Database has limited private preview and no pricing information. Microsoft has indicated to me that this will be a paid offering but has offered no pricing model.

To query any SQL database from PowerShell, you need to have the SQLPS module installed along with a few supporting packages. I am going to be focusing on the SQL Server 2012 packages in this article.

Finally, Microsoft has added cross-database query support to Azure SQL’s elastic database query feature, essentially allowing multiple databases to contribute rows into a single result.

I have an application which we intend to deploy to a multinode, active/active SQL cluster. This application has two types of databases - one is an operational store, of which there can be N of ...

Azure SQL Database now supports native vector storage and processing, streamlining AI development by integrating vector search with SQL queries. This update simplifies database management ...

Hyperscale is an Azure SQL Database built upon a new set of Hyperscale storage technologies that enable high throughput and performance, databases of up to 100Tb in size, and offers very elastic and ...

The Azure Database for PostgreSQL is a managed database-as-a-service based on the open-source PostgreSQL relational database engine that has been in development for over 30 years.

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