Microsoft has detailed a couple of improvements to the way Azure SQL Database handles failovers in case of an outage. It works with individual databases, elastic pools, or a combination of both.

Data API supports Aurora PostgreSQL 15.3+, 14.8+, and 13.11+ clusters in Northern Virginia, Oregon, Frankfurt, and Tokyo.

Oracle’s view of the SQL versus NoSQL landscape is one in which there is plenty of opportunity for both. Despite the popularity of NoSQL for unstructured data, SQL is not disappearing anytime soon.

Sytze Harkema explains how to save and retrieve relational SQL data into a NoSQL key-value store as implemented by FoundationDB, an open source, scalable, fault tolerant and ACID database.

Joey on SQL Server How To Automate Tasks in Azure SQL Database Knowing how to automate tasks in the cloud will make you a more productive DBA. Here are the key concepts to understand about cloud ...

Yugabyte, the distributed SQL database expert, is unveiling extended vector search functionality and PostgreSQL compatibility for YugabyteDB, the AI-ready, multi-modal, distributed PostgreSQL database ...

Data API uses HTTP to run SQL operations against the database rather than maintaining a persistent TCP connection. The connection is dynamically reconfigured, and each request-response is its own ...