Microsoft has released the September update for Azure Data Studio, bringing SQL Server command line mode in the Query Editor, Notebook improvements, the Query Editor Boost extension, and more.

Ignite 2019: Microsoft has revved its Azure SQL Data Warehouse, re-branding it Synapse Analytics, and integrating Apache Spark, Azure Data Lake Storage and Azure Data Factory, with a unified Web ...

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 ...

A good example here is the new disaster recovery function that allows users to replicate their data in SQL Managed Instance on Azure and use that as a backup for their main on-premises SQL Server ...

In Azure SQL Database you can also set a HISTORY_RETENTION_PERIOD (and should be able to do it in SQL Server 2017) to control how far back in time your history will extend. Converting Existing Table ...

Microsoft Fabric, a data platform intended to unify all data and analytics services, now includes support for semistructured data through the preview of Azure Cosmos DB, a NoSQL and vector database.