Hyperscale is an Azure SQL Database built upon a new set of Hyperscale storage technologies that enable high throughput and performance, databases of up to 100Tb in size, and offers very elastic and ...

By using a single tool like PowerShell, you can access your data wherever it is stored. It does not matter if it is in the cloud in an Azure SQL database or in an on-premises MS-SQL server, MySQL or ...

Joey on SQL Server A Deep Dive Inside Azure SQL Database, Part 2 In the second part of this series, Joey describes the methods that Microsoft uses to manage code rollouts, and how it detects ...

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

One of the Azure SQL-related announcements that did not get a lot of publicity at May's Microsoft Build conference was the Azure SQL Database local database experience. With all the hype around ...

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 gather ...

Azure SQL Database Elastic Jobs preview faces a refresh, introducing customer-requested features and additions including Microsoft Entra ID support, Service-managed Private Link for secure ...

Users also get the Query Store hints that database developers can already use to tell in Azure SQL DB and Managed SQL Instances to help speed up queries without rewriting them.

Microsoft has announced a private preview of Copilot in Azure SQL Database, an AI assistant that improves productivity in the Azure portal by offering natural language to SQL conversion, along ...

However, SQL Agent faces one important shortcoming: It can run on Azure VMs and on Azure SQL Managed Instances, but it is not available on Azure SQL Database. As a result, we need a substitute.