Here's what each feature does and when to use it. This month, Microsoft introduced the public preview of a new database offering named "Azure SQL Database Managed Instance." This offering is in ...

This feature, along with row-level security ... source code for both SQL Server and Azure SQL Database as part of SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT). This is a key piece of tooling especially for ...

Both Azure Database for PostgreSQL and Azure SQL Database can now implement a technology called Hyperscale, which allows customers to build applications knowing they’ll be able to scale database ...

The Always Encrypted feature for Microsoft’s Azure SQL Database and SQL Server 2016 is now generally available, the company said. It keeps data encrypted at all times, showing it in plaintext ...

Recent updates to Microsoft's Azure SQL Database service include migration, high-availability and information protection options, and other improvements. Microsoft's aim with these improvements is ...

"Microsoft Azure SQL Database is a fully managed database as a service," DB-Engines said in announcing the second-place ranking. "It is built on the latest stable version of the Microsoft SQL Server ...

Other features of the new service include full-text search within databases, column-level access rights (something Microsoft also recently introduced for the regular Azure SQL databases), and ...

program managers in the Microsoft SQL Database product group, specifically for Azure SQL. Elastic Jobs is a new feature set currently in public preview, with an expected general availability date ...

the same features, and the same management tools. That same compatibility has also been extended to the Azure cloud. The Azure SQL Database has always been similar to SQL Server, but, with Managed ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. In its January release of Azure Data Studio, formerly ...