Azure SQL Database: A SQL database native to the cloud, also known as a platform as a service (PaaS) database or a database as a service (DBaaS) that is optimized for software-as-a-service (SaaS) app ...

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 ...

Choosing between the standard SQL Server management system and Microsoft’s cloud-powered Azure SQL database is a challenge which many businesses face in the modern era. To help make this simpler ...

When Microsoft introduced SQL Azure (initially called SQL Data Services) in 2008, database size was limited to either 1GB or 5GB, depending on your service tier. Even back then, that was an ...

Here's how Azure SQL Database Edge will fit into the company's broader vision for a more connected world. During his keynote at last week's Microsoft Build conference, CEO Satya Nadella introduced ...

Azure Active Directory authentication is a mechanism of connecting to Microsoft Azure SQL Database by using identities in Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). With Azure Active Directory authentication ...

Maybe you are still getting up-to-speed with the whole concept of cloud computing. If so, I have a lot of sympathy for you because there is so much to learn and because cloud technologies advance so ...

Like the rest of the SQL Server family, Azure SQL Edge is a relational database with nonrelational capabilities. You can use it for traditional table-based storage, or instead work with JSON ...