Microsoft has unveiled new capabilities and service tiers in the Azure database space, including Hyperscale for PostgreSQL, APIs for Apache Spark and etcd, and online migrations for Oracle databases.

While Microsoft obviously already offers Azure SQL as an option for developers who need a relational database, that’s not exactly a drop-in replacement for MySQL, for example, and developers ...

Azure Database for PostgreSQL: Fast facts. Pricing: Pay as you go model. Key features. AI-powered intelligent performance optimization. Geospatial support. Postgres version 11 supports up to 37 ...

The Azure Hybrid Benefit will now provide customers with up to 30 percent savings on their SQL Database Managed Instance bill when they migrate their existing SQL Server licenses to the cloud.

Microsoft broke new ground in scalability when it launched Azure SQL Database Hyperscale. Here's what it took to make Microsoft's hyperscale vision work with the existing Azure infrastructure.

With the March update of Azure Data Studio, Microsoft added preview support of the popular PostgreSQL database, along with a new PostgreSQL extension for the Visual Studio Code editor. The push for ...

As organizations face increasing pressure to modernize their applications and infrastructure, the benefits of the cloud have become impossible to ignore. Fortunately, Azure SQL Database managed ...