Its high degree of compatibility with cloud releases of SQL Server, which includes numerous editions of Azure SQL Database — especially Azure SQL Database MI — means that on-premise customers ...

By using a single tool like PowerShell, you can access your data wherever it is stored. It does not matter if it is in the cloud in an Azure SQL database or in an on-premises MS-SQL server, MySQL or ...

Joey on SQL Server. A Deep Dive Inside Azure SQL Database, Part 2. In the second part of this series, Joey describes the methods that Microsoft uses to manage code rollouts, and how it detects ...

Azure SQL Managed Instance General Purpose is "a tier of Microsoft's relational database service, based on SQL Server, that operates like an on-premises SQL Server instance," Snodgrass explained ...

Officially called Azure SQL Database Edge, the service runs on ARM64 and x64 processors and ... modern hybrid application ... data engines for enterprise workloads on-premises and in ...

Microsoft announced a preview last week of a new SQL Information Protection service, which can be used with the Azure SQL Database service or with SQL Server on premises. SQL Information Protection ...

Scaling out SQL Azure with federated database instances follows a pattern similar to that for on-premises SQL Server, but is subject to several important limitations. For example, SQL Azure doesn't ...

Azure Migrate is also integrated with Azure Database Migration Service for database discovery and migration. As you would expect, it supports Microsoft SQL Server on-premises migration to the ...

About 5,500 of the SQL Server faithful came out for the PASS Summit 2018 in Seattle last November. As usual, the event had the feel of a great big family reunion. It's always a fun time, with lots of ...

Azure Database for PostgreSQL: Fast facts. Pricing: Pay as you go model. Key features. AI-powered intelligent performance optimization. Geospatial support. Postgres version 11 supports up to 37 ...