Joey on SQL Server How To Automate Tasks in Azure SQL Database Knowing how to automate tasks in the cloud will make you a more productive DBA.

By using a single tool like PowerShell, you can access your data wherever it is stored. It does not matter if it is in the cloud in an Azure SQL database or in an on-premises MS-SQL server, MySQL or ...

Q&A Get Started Using .NET Aspire with SQL Server & Azure SQL Database By David Ramel 01/23/2025 Microsoft unveiled .NET Aspire at the Build 2024 developer conference, describing it as an opinionated, ...

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 ...

One of the Azure SQL-related announcements that did not get a lot of publicity at May's Microsoft Build conference was the Azure SQL Database local database experience. With all the hype around ...

Hyperscale is an Azure SQL Database built upon a new set of Hyperscale storage technologies that enable high throughput and performance, databases of up to 100Tb in size, and offers very elastic and ...

With Azure AI Agent Service, agents can interpret user intent, plan tasks, and invoke database logic, like vector search or semantic filtering, without manual SQL input. This enables conversational ...