Microsoft announced on Monday that it plans to "retire" its Azure Database for MariaDB service on Sept. 19, 2025. The announcement recommended that organizations using Azure Database for MariaDB ...

In this case, we needed to assess whether migrating to Azure's MySQL Flexible Server, Azure SQL Database or alternative offerings from AWS and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) would be the best fit.

That could make migration easier for enterprises that have invested a ton of money in running SQL Server on premises. In addition, the Azure Database Services for MySQL and PostgreSQL are ...

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 ...