SQL Server’s data resiliency story gets a boost thanks to the new “link feature” in Azure SQL Managed Instance. According to Kumar’s post, the link feature includes a built-in Distributed Availability ...

Who needs rewrites? This metadata-powered architecture fuses AI and ETL so smoothly, it turns pipelines into self-evolving ...

In Azure SQL Data Warehouse, fact tables are distributed across nodes using a hash column, while smaller dimensions are replicated to all nodes and larger dimensions use the same hash distribution.

Microsoft recently announced the public preview of Azure SQL Database External REST Endpoint Integration – an ability to call a REST endpoint natively from Azure SQL Database.

Azure SQL Database now supports native vector storage and processing, streamlining AI development by integrating vector search with SQL queries. This update simplifies database management ...

Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server offers ... extensible SQL database that uses familiar queries and interfaces to give ... storage, export and import, replication, maintenance ...

“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 ...

Azure SQL Data Warehouse entered a limited preview in late June of 2015 and opened up to a wider audience in October 2015, with thousands of customers already on board before today's general ...

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 ...

Azure Synapse, formerly the Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse, ... compression, diagnosis, and other features. There is also no need to copy data during scale up operations with Snowflake.