A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, complete with a PowerShell script that handles the networking configuration.

By Joey D'Antoni 05/19/2025 Today, at Microsoft Build, Microsoft announced the public preview of SQL Server 2025 -- the latest release of their premier database product.

Q&A Get Started Using .NET Aspire with SQL Server & Azure SQL Database By David Ramel 01/23/2025 Microsoft unveiled .NET Aspire at the Build 2024 developer conference, describing it as an opinionated, ...

I have an .NET 6 Azure Function app with EF Core 6 and Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 4.1.0 and I'm trying to connect to an Azure SQL database with Active Directory Default authentication via the connection ...

Introducing Data API builder Designed to run on premises, at the edge, and in the cloud, Data API builder is an open source tool targeting five different databases: Azure SQL, SQL Server ...

Joey on SQL Server How To Automate Tasks in Azure SQL Database Knowing how to automate tasks in the cloud will make you a more productive DBA.

When creating automation scripts to discover, add, update or remove records from a remote SQL database, you need to make sure your script can successfully connect to the database.

With its move to Microsoft Azure, Snowflake becomes one of the few multi-cloud data warehouses in the market. Apart from competing with traditional, on-premises data warehouse vendors, it’s ...