In the cloud era, you may wonder why Microsoft is investing big into an "on-premises" product like SQL Server. It is a complex question I wanted to answer through the lens of some of the new ...

Also interesting is a new pay-as-you-go billing model for SQL server through Azure Arc, Microsoft’s platform for managing cloud and on-premises resources. Using a connection to Azure Arc ...

Microsoft Corp. today released SQL Server 2022, the latest release of its popular SQL Server relational database. SQL Server can run in the cloud and on on-premises infrastructure. The latest ...

On the business side, Microsoft sees this release of SQL ... Its high degree of compatibility with cloud releases of SQL Server, which includes numerous editions of Azure SQL Database ...

Mostly aimed at Europe and its increasingly nervous users Microsoft has created a version of its 365 productivity suite that ...

A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, ...

At Microsoft Build, SQL Server 2025 enters public preview with ... area to provide a better overall experience. In the era of cloud database services, you may wonder why Microsoft is making ...

While IT leaders acknowledge an update is due, many are hesitant to make major investments in on-premises technology due to the increasing use of cloud computing platforms. SQL Server 2016 will ...

Microsoft's security researchers report ... Next, the attackers attempted to exploit the cloud identity of the SQL Server instance to access the IMDS (Instant Metadata Service) and obtain the ...

The part of Microsoft that we care about most as the chronicler of platforms is the Intelligent Cloud group, which includes the Windows Server stack and Azure together. To be more precise, Intelligent ...

Azure also offers cloud-hosted versions of common enterprise Microsoft solutions, such as Entra ID and SQL Server. This introduction to Microsoft’s cloud platform will be updated periodically to ...