If you're looking for a popular database management system (DBMS) platform, Microsoft SQL Server is a solid choice. Research from Gartner shows it's among the most widely deployed platforms in the ...

Google already supported Microsoft SQL Server in traditional virtual machines — so you had to manage it yourself. If you have a license and you want Google to manage your database for you, Cloud ...

SQL Server's Stretch Database feature became publicly available in May 2015 with SQL Server 2016 CTP 2.0. With CTP 2.0, customers could stretch data to Microsoft's database as a service, ...

If organizations use zone-redundant databases with the Azure SQL Database service under the Business Critical tier (also known as "Premium"), then they can now be eligible for a 99.995 percent SLA.

While the on-premises version of SQL Server 2016 is still making its way to general availability, Microsoft has actually been using the same codebase to power Azure’s SQL database service ...

By the end of October, Microsoft will start public previews of a feature for Always Encrypted, which provides encryption of data in transit, at rest, and in use for its Azure SQL Database service ...