Defining Managed SQL Services Managed SQL services are cloud-based solutions that give users access to SQL databases without needing to manage the underlying infrastructure. This means the service ...

SQL Server Drill Down explores all aspects of Microsoft SQL ... data assets were created over a period of years or decades without an integrated, top-down data architecture.As these data management ...

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Ten years ago, SQL Server instances were cautiously being moved to on-prem ... The catch is that much of the data architecture that has been designed up to this point is not intended to support ...

Azure SQL Database Hyperscale became generally ... Page servers are a key element of this scale-out architecture. Each page server stores a subset of the data in your database, which is somewhere ...

The SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters add-on and the PolyBase ... of "large external data sets in a parallel processing architecture," according to Microsoft's description. Microsoft also plans ...

Microsoft is also delivering more seamless Azure integration with SQL Server 2025. The new Microsoft Fabric database mirroring will allow customers to set up real-time analytics by replicating SQL ...

In other words, despite the fact that the motivation for SQL was to use standardized declarative queries, in the real world you see lots of database-specific procedural server programming.