Azure SQL is Microsoft's cloud-based database service that offers a broad range of SQL database features, scalability, and security to support applications' data storage and management needs.

The Azure SQL Database emulator changes that and provides an easy way for a developer to build a multi-tier application on their laptop and then deploy it directly into a production cloud environment.

Azure SQL Database fared better in a ranking of "Best cloud databases of 2021" by TechRadar, published in November 2020, where it's No. 1. DB-Engines uses a variety of means for its ranking, including ...

Azure SQL Managed Instance General Purpose is "a tier of Microsoft's relational database service, based on SQL Server, that operates like an on-premises SQL Server instance," Snodgrass explained ...

The full list of supported data stores includes: SQL Server Azure SQL Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL PostgreSQL Azure Database for PostgreSQL Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL MySQL Azure Database for MySQL ...

Microsoft has made PostgreSQL 17 generally available on Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server. It has also enabled in-place upgrades to improve the experience.

The result of this vision is a metadata-driven ETL framework built on Azure Data Factory (ADF). By leveraging metadata to define and drive ETL processes, the system offers unparalleled flexibility ...

Mapping Data Flows will clean, normalize and flatten the data, in Parquet format, in multiple data sinks such as Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Cosmos DB and Synapse SQL DW, the company explained ...

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 ...

Microsoft Data Quality Services’ fast facts Pricing: As part of the Azure Arc-enabled SQL Server 2022 package, DQS starts at $0.100 per hour. Key features: Data quality monitoring.