As part of this expanded partnership, PingCAP is launching TiDB Cloud Dedicated in public preview on Azure, enabling enterprises to deploy distributed SQL natively within Azure’s secure, compliant, ...

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My guess is that it takes some time for master database to properly initialize after the SQL server is created (i.e. AzureRM API reports back to terraform that server is created before master is ...

ADR improves database availability, especially in the presence of long running transactions, by redesigning the SQL database engine recovery process. ADR is introduced in SQL Server 2019 (15.x) and ...

In SQL Server, the database can be stored in different files and filegroups. If your database is small (100 MB or less), you do not need to worry too much about files and filegroups. But if you have a ...

Microsoft today released the 2022 version of its SQL Server database, which features a number of built-in connections to its Azure cloud.

The Azure SQL Database emulator changes that and provides an easy way for a developer to build a multi-tier application on their laptop and then deploy it directly into a production cloud environment.

For SQL Server and Windows Server 2012 or 2012 R2, you’ll get free ESUs on Azure until July 12, 2025; Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 extended support goes away on October 10, 2026.