However, SQL Server database backups in Azure, in either an IaaS or PaaS implementation, introduce several distinct features which may help optimize a backup plan. Of course, there are also a few ...

Another security and safety note is that Azure SQL Copilot operates within ... you can't use that generic backup tool to backup the database server," I might have retired by now.

Microsoft's continued focus on SQL Server 2025 highlights the lasting demand for on-premises and hybrid deployments that ...

About 5,500 of the SQL Server ... or IaaS SQL Server licenses to Hyperscale databases. Hyperscale, at present, has a few limitations compared to other SQL Server technologies. For example, it does not ...

While some database workloads have migrated to the cloud—and the next version of SQL Server has more tools and integration with Azure services for backup or analytics to help with that if it’s ...

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 ...

Microsoft today released SQL Server 2022 ... their data in SQL Managed Instance on Azure and use that as a backup for their main on-premises SQL Server, which should make it easy to fail over ...

As White rightly notes, this also ensures that developers only have to write an application once and then deploy it to platforms that feature Azure SQL Database, good old SQL Server on premises ...

Consequently, features like manual backup/restore, management of server configuration parameters are not supported." Azure SQL Database fared better in a ranking of "Best cloud databases of 2021" by ...

database authentication with Azure Active Directory, geo-redundant backups and fast restores of data, and a migration tool for moving workloads from the product’s older Single Server deployment ...