SQL Server on Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines (VM) had up to 86.8% better price-performance when comparing Azure Hybrid Benefit to AWS License Mobility for three-year compute commitment, and up ...

Microsoft recently published updated guidance for running SQL Server on Azure virtual machines (VMs). I wanted to share some of the highlights of the documentation, combined with my experiences ...

Azure Dedicated Host will support Windows, Linux and SQL Server virtual machines and pricing is per host, independent of the number of virtual machines you end up running on them.

Hackers are targeting Azure virtual machines (VM) using flawed Microsoft SQL servers as a stepping stone, security researchers have revealed. Microsoft’s experts recently reported observing the ...

Microsoft Ignite 2017: MS Stresses Choice, From SQL Server 2017 to Azure Machine Learning Written by Doug Henschen, Contributing Writer Sept. 28, 2017 at 9:04 a.m. PT Video: These are the top ...

This enables the threat actors to gain access to the SQL Server instance hosted on Azure Virtual Machine with elevated permissions to execute SQL commands and extract valuable data.

New virtual machine types. Azure Da_v4 and Das_v4 virtual machines, which launched in preview last August, are now generally available and deployable via the Azure Portal, command-line interface ...

More than a third of virtual machines running on Azure are Linux VMs. Here's what's available. Written by Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Senior Contributing Editor June 29, 2017 at 5:09 a.m. PT ...