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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft broke new ground in scalability when it launched Azure SQL Database Hyperscale. Here's what it took to make Microsoft's hyperscale vision work with the existing Azure infrastructure.

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 ...

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.

Although Azure SQL Edge can operate with a direct connection to Azure SQL instances in the cloud, it’s designed to function as a stand-alone database on disconnected, low-power systems.

In the initial demo, the Azure SQL Database did not have In-Memory objects enabled. The result was that both CPU and Log IO were under considerable pressure with CPU % hovering around 89% and Log ...

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 ...

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) allow developers to gather ...

When you need a SQL database fast, the cloud is the best way to go. Azure provides a SQL database as a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that eliminates the need to get an entire SQL Server up and running.