Microsoft has just added support for query hints to Azure SQL Database, giving database administrators a powerful tool to manage the performance of ISV application code. Here's how it works.

Meanwhile, users of Azure SQL’s P11 and P15 Premium databases will now find that they have more storage to work with. When P15 was announced as generally available last summer , it included up ...

A preview of the Azure Data Lake will be available later this year. In addition to these two new products, the company has also updated its Azure SQL Database service so customers can pool their ...

As part of its larger updates to Azure today, Microsoft announced that SQL databases on the service, available later this month in the premium tier, will be able to store up to 500GB of data.Until ...

Learn how to use the Azure Portal to create a cloud-based SQL database with just a few mouse clicks. While the embrace of big data, machine learning, and IoT by business enterprises everywhere may ...

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 ...