Microsoft plans to release a "General Purpose" version of its Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance (MI) at the "general availability" (GA) commercial-release stage, "starting July 30, 2021." ...

This article explains communication in an Azure SQL Database managed instance. It also describes connectivity architecture and how the components direct traffic to the managed instance. The SQL ...

If you’re an on-premises SQL Server whiz and currently integrating the cloud or considering a move to Platform as a Service, this paper is a must read! Paper Overview While SQL Server and Windows ...

The database engine running on Hyperscale compute nodes is the same as in other Azure SQL Database service tiers. When users interact with the database engine on Hyperscale compute nodes, the ...

Azure Database for PostgreSQL: Fast facts. Pricing: Pay as you go model. Key features. AI-powered intelligent performance optimization. Geospatial support. Postgres version 11 supports up to 37 ...

Microsoft today released SQL Server 2022, the latest version of its database software, which originally launched more than 33 years ago.Microsoft describes this release as the “most Azure ...

Simplifying Database Migrations with Azure SQL . By migrating their databases to Azure, customers like Ernst and Young are modernizing their data estate and leveraging cutting-edge cloud innovations.

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 ...