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.

Head over to our on-demand library to view sessions from VB Transform 2023. Register Here Microsoft today announced several security-oriented improvements for Azure SQL Database, a managed ...

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 ...

Other features Microsoft has enabled include service broker, change data capture and linked servers, which had previously been limiters for moving on-premises applications into Azure SQL Database.

A metadata-driven ETL framework using Azure Data Factory boosts scalability, flexibility, and security in integrating diverse ...

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's Azure SQL database already is available in a Web and business edition, ... Guthrie also announced on July 23 a handful of other incremental feature additions to Windows Azure.

"Microsoft Azure SQL Database and SQL Managed Instance are fully managed database services that feature built-in security controls, automated maintenance and are always up to date," said Ramnik ...

This feature was already available for Azure SQL Database (the mainstream cloud version of SQL Server) and, as of this writing, is still in preview on the Synapse Analytics side.

Microsoft today released the 2022 version of its SQL Server database, which features a number of built-in connections to its Azure cloud. ... Microsoft’s corporate VP for Azure Data, told me.

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 ...