Microsoft this week announced various Azure SQL Database improvements, including migration, high-availability and information protection options, plus some open source workload additions. Most ...

The hope is to automate the process of migrating SQL Server, Oracle, and MySQL databases to either Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL DB Managed Instance, or SQL Server hosted on an Azure virtual machine.

Microsoft has unveiled new capabilities and service tiers in the Azure database space, including Hyperscale for PostgreSQL, APIs for Apache Spark and etcd, and online migrations for Oracle databases.

Microsoft announced a preview last week of a new SQL Information Protection service, which can be used with the Azure SQL Database service or with SQL Server on premises. SQL Information Protection ...

On August 30, Microsoft announced the public preview of the Azure Database Migration Service (DMS) to support online migrations of various databases to Azure. ... You might also want to spend a few ...

The same tool offers customers target size recommendations for Oracle Database migration to Azure Database for PostgreSQL and Azure SQL. This also includes Azure SQL Database Hyperscale, which ...

It supports SQL Server versions 2012 through 2019, as well as Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance and Azure Synapse Analytics. SEE: Steps for performing a successful data migration ...

The SQL Server Vulnerability Assessment tool (VA) is a feature within SQL Server Management Server (SSMS) 17.4 that scans your SQL Server instances of version 2012 and later, identifies security ...