In recent releases of SQL Server ... create and validate indexes for your application automatically. This works by watching the telemetry from the query patterns for each database to infer ...

Defining Managed SQL Services Managed SQL services are cloud-based solutions that give users access to SQL databases without needing to manage the underlying infrastructure. This means the service ...

making the development experience as simple as possible. What capabilities specifically help data developers working with SQL Server and Azure SQL Database? Azure SQL Database is packed with modern ...

Microsoft has a lot of database pilots and projects in the works, among them Katmai, Astoria, Jasper and Volta. But how do they all fit together? Francois Ajenstat, director of SQL Server ...

Dice deduced a key takeaway gleaned from the data: "Employers really, really, really want technologists who know how to build, maintain, and scale everything database- (and data-) related." And that, ...

In addition to all of those features, Microsoft delivered an automated tuning feature, similar to what is in Azure SQL Database ... This mechanism lets us create most features and test them ...