Small businesses can create and access an SQL database of their creation for as little as $4.99/month. This tutorial shows you how to use the Azure Portal to create a cloud-based SQL database with ...

An Azure subscription An administrative account that has permissions to create a SQL database The AzureRm PowerShell modules from the PowerShell Gallery (Install-Module -Name AzureRm) A resource group ...

While having a small Azure SQL Database for development purposes doesn't cost a lot, it does increase developer friction -- especially if the developer does not have the permissions to create ...

SQL Server and more recently, Azure SQL Database, have well-established roots. Scott Guthrie, executive vice president at Microsoft, explains why it was important to invest in an edge data store: ...

However, it's somewhat limited in that it can only operate on Azure SQL Database. Elastic Jobs also requires you to create an Azure SQL Database to manage the jobs.

Nowadays, Wilson says, Paychex is relying on the Microsoft Azure SQL Database cloud service to handle its data. "We've had a great experience with Microsoft," Wilson told Business Insider.

Like its larger brethren, Azure SQL Database Edge will also support graph data and comes with the same security and encryption features that can, for example, protect the data at rest and in ...