Microsoft plans to release a "General Purpose" version of its Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance (MI) at the "general availability" (GA) commercial-release stage, "starting July 30, 2021." ...

When Managed Instance was introduced, DBAs everywhere were thrilled mainly because features like SQL Server Agent jobs and cross-database queries were supported in a PaaS offering.

In a recently commissioned study 3 conducted by IDC, migrating to Azure SQL Managed Instance delivered a 45% increase of productivity for database administrators and 27% increase in productivity ...

A good example here is the new disaster recovery function that allows users to replicate their data in SQL Managed Instance on Azure and use that as a backup for their main on-premises SQL Server ...

Azure SQL Managed Instance: Primarily used for disaster recovery and replicated data failover. Azure Synapse Analytics: For monitoring and managing data changes.

Like its counterpart, Azure SQL Manages Instance, the idea here is to give users access to a scalable, cloud-based database service. To use Cassandra in Azure before, businesses had to either move ...

Whether you're shifting ETL workloads to the cloud or visually building data transformation pipelines, version 2 of Azure Data Factory lets you leverage conventional and open source technologies ...

Microsoft’s Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra is perhaps best thought of as a way of extending on-premises data into Cosmos DB. There’s been demand for on-premises Cosmos DB since ...

As mentioned earlier, you can still use SQL Agent on Azure VMs and, with some limitations, on Azure SQL Managed Instances. With all of those options competing for your attention, just remember that ...

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 ...