At PASS Summit 2017, Microsoft announced SQL Operations Studio to help devs and admins monitor database performance and boost efficiency while Azure picked up a new "compute-optimized" service tier.

Joey on SQL Server. Azure SQL Data Warehouse: New Features and New Benchmark. Microsoft's drive to put Azure SQL Data Warehouse on more equal footing with SQL Server is finally paying off.

Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server pricing Microsoft Azure gives new users a $200 credit to use within 30 days when they sign up, allowing them to try the platform before making a ...

Microsoft adds retail pricing and cost breakdowns to SQL Server migration assessments in Azure Arc, making planning faster ...

The October release of Azure Data Studio (formerly called SQL Operations Studio) includes preview support for SQL Server 2019 and more. Azure Data Studio, which was introduced last year as SQL ...

The current Azure SQL Database limit of 4TB is based on the maximum size of the local solid-state drive (SSD) in a given physical server. The aim of Azure SQL Database Hyperscale is to create a ...

To query any SQL database from PowerShell, you need to have the SQLPS module installed along with a few supporting packages. I am going to be focusing on the SQL Server 2012 packages in this article.

On the hardware side, the company revealed new reference architecture for using SQL Server 2016 with active data sets of up to 145TB. Apple’s WWDC 2025 is here. Taking place June 9-13, don’t ...

She also announced two new features for SQL Server working on both .NET Framework and .NET Core: Data Classification -- Available in Azure SQL Database and Microsoft SQL Server 2019 since CTP 2.0. UTF ...

“The new Microsoft Azure Data Lake services for analytics in the cloud (bit.ly/1VcCkaH) includes a hyper-scale repository; a new analytics service built on YARN (bit.ly/1iS8xvP) that lets data ...