Microsoft has just added support for query hints to Azure SQL Database, giving database administrators a powerful tool to manage the performance of ISV application code. Here's how it works.

Joey on SQL Server. Hands-On with Copilot for Azure SQL Database. I've been playing around with the new Microsoft service, currently in preview and it's time to show off what it can do.

Like its larger brethren, Azure SQL Database Edge will also support graph data and comes with the same security and encryption features that can, for example, protect the data at rest and in ...

Microsoft bets on Azure. Microsoft is making big bets on Azure SQL Database: On Monday, Microsoft launched new updates helping it handle ever-larger amounts of data. Specifically, Microsoft ...

Microsoft has opened up to testers the limited preview of the premium tier of its Windows Azure SQL database for business-critical applications. Written by Mary Jo Foley, Senior Contributing ...

As Microsoft today announced during its Build developer conference keynote in San Francisco, its new Azure SQL Database elastic databases (yep, that's the complete name) ...

--Datadog, Inc., the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications, today announced expanded monitoring for Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Azure database platforms. The announcement ...

Since it is a single-database solution, Azure SQL Managed Instances are not available with Hyperscale. Hyperscale is currently available in public preview for single databases in the following regions ...