Azure will default to the Standard pricing tier, but if you want to consider adding a higher-performance server for your SQL database, click the arrow to reveal Figure D. The basic pricing tier ...

How Telemetry Is Making SQL Server and Azure SQL Better: Part 1. ... One cool example in SQL Azure is that we can recommend, create and validate indexes for your application automatically.

Azure data services. To create a consistent data platform for the data center and the cloud, ... Azure data services combine with Microsoft SQL Server to create a consistent data platform.

Using a connection to Azure Arc, which is part of the SQL Server 2022 setup process, on-premises users can now also opt for cloud-enabled billing to manage consumption spikes or for ad hoc use cases.

In an earlier column, I showed how to create a temporal table in SQL Server 2016 or Azure SQL Database. Once you've defined a temporal table, SQL Server automatically keeps a history of all the ...

SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database both give you tables that automatically keep track of changes to your data. Here's how to both create those tables and alter existing tables so they track the ...