And while Synapse has its Azure Synapse studio, SQL Server 2019 offers a notebook-capable, cross-platform (Windows/macOS/Linux) desktop user interface for database and data lake workloads, called ...

New improvements for the SQL Server 2019 extension, including updates for Azure Data Studio Notebooks and the Create External Data Wizard, are also part of the January updates, wrote Yu.

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.

Q&A Azure SQL Database Edge: How Microsoft Is Giving Edge Devices a Data Boost Microsoft introduced a new service into its "intelligent edge" portfolio at the recent Build conference. Here's how ...

At PASS Summit 2017, Microsoft announced SQL Operations Studio to help devs and admins monitor database performance and boost efficiency while Azure picked up a new "compute-optimized" service tier.

By default, Azure Monitor retains data warehouse metrics for 90 days. Azure SQL Data Warehouse also features tighter integration with Azure Analysis Services, a cloud-based analytics engine.

The new service, which will also run on x64-based devices and edge gateways, promises to bring low-latency analytics to edge devices as it allows users to work with streaming data and time-series ...