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 ...

When you need a SQL database fast, the cloud is the best way to go. Azure provides a SQL database as a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that eliminates the need to get an entire SQL Server up and running.

Other features of the new service include full-text search within databases, column-level access rights (something Microsoft also recently introduced for the regular Azure SQL databases), and real ...

Microsoft bets on Azure Microsoft is making big bets on Azure SQL Database: On Monday, Microsoft launched new updates helping it handle ever-larger amounts of data.

Figure 2. Successful Azure PowerShell Connection Output. Although this next step might have been set for other reasons, you must have a server firewall rule setup to allow incoming SQL connections ...