Microsoft has announced a private preview of Copilot in Azure SQL Database, an AI assistant that improves productivity in the Azure portal by offering natural language to SQL conversion, along ...

Microsoft recently published a new version of its service-level agreement (SLA) for Azure SQL Database, adding uptime perks for organizations that use the "Business Critical" tier.. If ...

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.

Azure SQL database To start, log in to Microsoft Azure using your administrative credentials. From the Home or Dashboard screen, click the Create a resource (+) link.

Hyperconscious of the cloud’s need to appear secure by design, Microsoft announced new encryption and data-protection features today for Azure SQL Database. Microsoft not only wants to encrypt ...

Microsoft recently announced the public preview of Azure SQL Database External REST Endpoint Integration – an ability to call a REST endpoint natively from Azure SQL Database.

Now available in Microsoft’s Canadian Azure datacentres, it satisfies data residency requirements as well as providing an instance of SQL Server 2008 (or even SQL Server 2005, should it still be ...

Q&A. Get Started Using .NET Aspire with SQL Server & Azure SQL Database. By David Ramel; 01/23/2025; Microsoft unveiled .NET Aspire at the Build 2024 developer conference, describing it as an ...

If you are an old hand at Microsoft SQL Server, you have probably used the SQL Server Agent (i.e., SQL Agent) service and MSDB database for the last 20 years. With a humble and largely unchanged ...