One way that organizations are storing data in the cloud is by moving their databases to the cloud. What once meant building an entire physical server, patching it, installing software like Microsoft ...

On Thursday at the SQLBits conference in Hampshire, U.K., Microsoft announced the private preview of Copilot for Azure SQL Database. This new Azure service aims to help users write queries and ...

There are lots of ways to create MSSQL databases via PowerShell. We could invoke a T-SQL query using the CREATE DATABASE term, we could write some code to use the [Create() method with SMO] or, if ...

Data security provider Druva Inc. today announced expanded support for Microsoft Azure, including cloud-native data ...

Maybe you are still getting up-to-speed with the whole concept of cloud computing. If so, I have a lot of sympathy for you because there is so much to learn and because cloud technologies advance so ...

As Microsoft today announced during its Build developer conference keynote in San Francisco, its new Azure SQL Database elastic databases (yep, that’s the complete name) allow developers to ...

Microsoft today announced an interesting update to its database lineup with the preview of Azure SQL Database Edge, a new tool that brings the same database engine that powers Azure SQL Database ...

Microsoft touted the inclusion of Azure SQL Database among the top three databases of 2020 in a popularity ranking by DB-Engines, which collects and manages information about database management ...

but it is not available on Azure SQL Database. As a result, we need a substitute. I recently had the pleasure of discussing Azure Elastic Database Jobs (i.e., Elastic Jobs) with Kate Smith and Srini ...

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 ...

When you need a SQL database fast, the cloud is the best way to go. Azure provides a SQL database as a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that eliminates the need to get an entire SQL Server up and running.