If organizations use zone-redundant databases with the Azure SQL Database service under the Business Critical tier (also known as "Premium"), then they can now be eligible for a 99.995 percent SLA.

Azure will default to the Standard pricing tier, but if you want to consider adding a higher-performance server for your SQL database, click the arrow to reveal Figure D.

This feature works using deterministic encryption, based on simple point lookup, searches, and equality joins on encrypted data housed within your SQL Server or Azure SQL database. Always Encrypted ...

SQL Server 2022 (and Azure SQL Database) quietly added an extended event to detect anti-patterns that the AI tool here is building upon.

Azure SQL Database Elastic Jobs preview faces a refresh, introducing customer-requested features and additions including Microsoft Entra ID support, Service-managed Private Link for secure connections ...

The tool provides automated code fixes, predefined migration tasks, and recommendations for Azure services, accelerating ...

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.

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: ...

The Azure Database for PostgreSQL is a managed database-as-a-service based on the open-source PostgreSQL relational database engine that has been in development for over 30 years.

Oracle Database Service for Azure also aids Microsoft as it is specifically targeted at organizations that prefer Microsoft Azure as their cloud provider but want to continue to use Oracle’s ...