Microsoft is promising that the Azure SQL Database Managed Instance service enables "native virtual network support," even though the workload is hosted on Microsoft's public cloud datacenters. It's ...

By the end of October, Microsoft will start public previews of a feature for Always Encrypted, which provides encryption of data in transit, at rest, and in use for its Azure SQL Database service ...

Azure SQL Data Warehouse gets less press than its online transaction processing brethren, Azure SQL Database and Azure Cosmos DB. However, it is a powerful cloud engine for processing large ...

In-Depth. Top 7 Features Coming to SQL Server 2016. SQL 2016 has a number of major enhancements which will help whether or not you are implementing on-prem, in Azure or in a hybrid model.

And for Azure SQL Database customers that need to scale compute and memory as needed, Microsoft rolled out a new serverless pricing option that lets developers pay by the second for their usage.

Microsoft Azure SQL Database Gets New Service Tiers. By David Ramel; 04/25/2014; Microsoft yesterday announced its Microsoft Azure SQL Database service is incorporating new preview service tiers. The ...

The company plans to introduce SQL Server 2019 this week in Orlando, and it will also extend a key capability of its newest cloud database — Cosmos DB — to all Azure customers.

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 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 ...

Microsoft yesterday announced its Microsoft Azure SQL Database service is incorporating new preview service tiers. The relational Database as a Service (DaaS) cloud offering is getting Basic and ...