Using a connection to Azure Arc, which is part of the SQL Server 2022 setup process, on-premises users can now also opt for cloud-enabled billing to manage consumption spikes or for ad hoc use cases.

Microsoft Corp. is creating technology to give businesses more fine-grained control over access to data stored in the company's upcoming SQL Azure database-as-a-service, a senior engineer said ...

News SQL Azure Users Can Monitor Security with New Service By Kurt Mackie 01/31/2012 Microsoft offered up details on a new service for helping SQL Azure users monitor the security of their databases ...

The traditional method of paying for SQL Server is buying license and software assurance. Now, you can connect your SQL Server to Azure Arc and pay only for the hours when your VM with SQL Server is ...

Microsoft SQL Azure can also be run within the Microsoft Azure cloud. This instance of SQL Server is a scaled back version compared to the traditional non-Azure hosted SQL Server.

Choose a SQL Server trial, edition, tool, or connector that best meets your data and workload needs. Get the full-featured free edition, licensed for use as a development and test database in a ...