First of all, Azure SQL Database does not have the SQL Server Agent as a service. If you are running SQL Server in an Azure VM, or are using ... [Click on image for larger view.] ...

the popularity of Azure SQL Database has skyrocketed over the past year, while plain old Microsoft SQL Server has stayed relatively flat over the years while decreasing slightly, especially over the ...

While SQL Server looks costly compared to the likes of MySQL and Postgresql, for companies seeking a commercially supported database ... virtual machines given a one or three-year commitment ...

After gaining access (as well as elevated privileges) to the instance hosted on an Azure VM, they’d run SQL commands to pull out data on things like databases ... of the SQL Server instance.