Azure SQL Database: A SQL database native to the cloud, also known as a platform as a service (PaaS) database or a database as a service (DBaaS) that is optimized for software-as-a-service (SaaS) app ...

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Ever since Microsoft introduced SQL Server Stretch Database in 2016, our guiding principles for such hybrid data storage solutions have always been affordability, security, and native Azure ...

SQL Server 2016’s new stretch database feature promises to offer local server performance for hot data and cloud storage for old data without any change to the application. The basic use case is ...

Microsoft announces major update to Azure SQL Database, adds free tier to Azure Machine Learning This morning at the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) Summit, we celebrated SQL Server ...