Although Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server is a solid tool, it may not serve the needs of all users, so we also reviewed some noteworthy alternatives for you to consider.

Microsoft on Tuesday announced the "general availability" (GA) commercial release of the Flexible Server deployment option for the Azure Database for PostgreSQL service. Flexible Server is ...

Joey on SQL Server. A Deep Dive Inside Azure SQL Database, Part 1. Microsoft promises 99.995 percent uptime for the Azure SQL platform, which is incredible.

A metadata-driven ETL framework using Azure Data Factory boosts scalability, flexibility, and security in integrating diverse ...

To do it via PowerShell, you'll need your Azure SQL database server name. To get this, you can use the Get-AzureSqlDatabaseServer cmdlet. You can see here that I have a single server called ...

While Microsoft's big Azure database news today is the launch of Cosmos DB, its new "planet-scale" distributed database service, there is a good chance that many developers will be more interested ...

At first glance, Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server seems like the most straightforward migration path. This service provides a fully managed environment with automatic backups, security ...

A team of researchers found two vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server that when chained together allowed them to access the PostgreSQL databases of other cloud tenants ...

If you are an old hand at Microsoft SQL Server, you have probably used the SQL Server Agent (i.e., SQL Agent) service and MSDB database for the last 20 years. With a humble and largely unchanged ...

Like its larger brethren, Azure SQL Database Edge will also support graph data and comes with the same security and encryption features that can, for example, protect the data at rest and in ...