Microsoft plans to release a "General Purpose" version of its Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance (MI) at the "general availability" (GA) commercial-release stage, "starting July 30, 2021." ...

Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance are what are known as Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings, which means the vendor provides nearly all of the infrastructure services of the ...

The ability to run Azure SQL Managed Instance -- a cloud version of SQL Server -- on non-Azure clouds, and even on-premises, will be generally available and production-ready on July 30th, 2021.

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 ...

According to Microsoft, SQL Server 2022 introduces a new integration that makes it possible to copy the contents of an on-premises database to Azure SQL Managed Instance. Organizations can use the ...

So while SQL Server 2022 enables migrating workloads to Azure SQL Managed Instance with virtually no downtime using distributed availability groups, users can also restore databases back to SQL ...

As SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 reach the end of support in 2019, you’ll have an opportunity to upgrade to a cloud database service. Follow this Skip to content ...

The Azure SQL Database has always been similar to SQL Server, but, with Managed Instances (released in preview at Build), developers can now move applications to use Azure SQL Databases with no ...

The expanded support includes protection for Azure SQL workloads, including Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance and SQL Server on Azure virtual machines.