Microsoft has announced a private preview of Copilot for SQL Azure, which offers a natural language for SQL conversion and self-help for database administration.

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Microsoft today released the 2022 version of its SQL Server database, which features a number of built-in connections to its Azure cloud.

Users also get the Query Store hints that database developers can already use to tell in Azure SQL DB and Managed SQL Instances to help speed up queries without rewriting them.

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As mentioned earlier, you can still use SQL Agent on Azure VMs and, with some limitations, on Azure SQL Managed Instances. With all of those options competing for your attention, just remember that ...

Azure Resource Manager (ARM), the control plane responsible for provisioning and managing cloud-based services such as Azure VMs and Azure SQL Database, is expanding its capabilities to support ...