Microsoft Fabric, a data platform intended to unify all data and analytics services, now includes support for semistructured data through the preview of Azure Cosmos DB, a NoSQL and vector database.

“Data Lake Virtualization integrates PolyBase with S3-compatible object storage, which adds support for querying parquet files with T-SQL,” said Khan. But if Azure is being used for big data ...

A metadata-driven ETL framework using Azure Data Factory boosts scalability, flexibility, and security in integrating diverse ...

Meanwhile, users of Azure SQL’s P11 and P15 Premium databases will now find that they have more storage to work with. When P15 was announced as generally available last summer , it included up ...

News. Microsoft Adds New Storage Option to SQL Azure, Cuts Pricing . By Kurt Mackie; 02/14/2012; Microsoft once again made some cuts to its SQL Azure pricing, as well as introduced a 100 MB database ...

Whether it's Microsoft's on-premises flagship SQL Server, PC thorn-in-the-side Access, or in-cloud options like Azure SQL Database, SQL Data Warehouse, Cosmos DB, Blob, file and table storage or ...

The first is snapshot-based backups: SQL Server 2012 introduced the ability to store data files in Azure Storage as http endpoints, and later advances in Azure Storage combined with code ...

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." ...

Learn how to use the Azure Portal to create a cloud-based SQL database with just a few mouse clicks. While the embrace of big data, machine learning, and IoT by business enterprises everywhere may ...