Microsoft has opened up to testers the limited preview of the premium tier of its Windows Azure SQL database for business-critical applications. Written by Mary Jo Foley, Senior Contributing ...

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 ...

A connection made with SQLBrowseConnect may be rejected if SQLBrowseConnect is used in stages. For example, if the driver name is sent in the first call, server and credentials (user and password) ...

Joey on SQL Server How Microsoft Is Building the Biggest Cloud Database Microsoft broke new ground in scalability when it launched Azure SQL Database Hyperscale. Here's what it took to make ...

SQL Server and more recently, Azure SQL Database, have well-established roots. Scott Guthrie, executive vice president at Microsoft, explains why it was important to invest in an edge data store: ...

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.

About a week later, Microsoft penned its own post about the award, stating: "DB-Engines collects information on database management systems and it provides a widely accepted popularity ranking of ...

Microsoft Azure SQL Database is an excellent Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) solution for a wide variety of users, notable for ease of use, exemplary controls, and AI/ML optimization.

Microsoft added the ability to set recurring automated SQL Database exports to a storage account with this release of Windows Azure. Users can set an export rule on any SQL Database to create a ...