Azure SQL Data Warehouse gets less press than its online transaction processing brethren, Azure SQL Database and Azure Cosmos DB. However, it is a powerful cloud engine for processing large ...

Microsoft broke new ground in scalability when it launched Azure SQL Database Hyperscale. Here's what it took to make Microsoft's hyperscale vision work with the existing Azure infrastructure.

Azure SQL Database now supports native vector storage and processing, streamlining AI development by integrating vector search with SQL queries. This update simplifies database management, enhances da ...

Since it is a single-database solution, Azure SQL Managed Instances are not available with Hyperscale. Hyperscale is currently available in public preview for single databases in the following regions ...

Microsoft Ships Data API Builder for Azure SQL Databases. By David Ramel; 05/15/2024; Microsoft today announced the general availability of the open source Data API builder ... In describing its ...

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 ...

Azure Synapse Overview. Azure Synapse, previously known as Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse, integrates big data and data warehousing into a single platform.. Its architecture is built on a ...

On the compute side, new, larger virtual machine types will allow each node to be powered at up to 18,000 DWUs (data warehouse units -- Microsoft's measurement of DW compute capacity), a tripling ...

By the end of October, Microsoft will start public previews of a feature for Always Encrypted, which provides encryption of data in transit, at rest, and in use for its Azure SQL Database service ...