A new feature in the general availability release of SQL Server 2022’s setup configuration adds an option to select PAYG hourly billing, if you connect to Azure via an Azure Arc agent.

SQL Agent, in contrast, supports only T-SQL and the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) API, and SMO. Second, Elastic Jobs has a broader scope in Azure, running jobs on multiple Azure SQL Databases ...

SQL Server’s data resiliency story gets a boost thanks to the new “link feature” in Azure SQL Managed Instance. According to Kumar’s post, the link feature includes a built-in Distributed Availability ...

If you are an old hand at Microsoft SQL Server, you have probably used the SQL Server Agent (i.e., SQL Agent) service and MSDB database for the last 20 years. With a humble and largely unchanged ...

Using a connection to Azure Arc, which is part of the SQL Server 2022 setup process, on-premises users can now also opt for cloud-enabled billing to manage consumption spikes or for ad hoc use cases.

Arcion Announces Agentless Change Data Capture for Azure, SQL Server, Oracle, SAP HANA, and MySQL September 28, 2022 09:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time ...

Particularly in the case of SQL Server, introducing vector columns may require schema evolution, which can be disruptive. Of course Azure Cosmos DB is schema-free, meaning that while there is schema, ...