Windows hosting services can host your websites and apps on dedicated Microsoft technologies like ASP.NET or .NET. In fact, they can even run different products like Exchange or Microsoft SQL Server.

Microsoft has released the first CTP of its SQL Server Hosting Toolkit. This toolkit is designed to provide support for companies using a hosted SQL Server.

Microsoft has suspended its SQL Server on Windows Container beta “with immediate effect”, citing ecosystem challenges. Microsoft senior program manager Amit Khandelwal said: “Due to the ...

Amazon takes its RDS out of beta, offers Oracle and SQL Server hosting To fend off Google's Cloud SQL, RDS adds multi-zone replication, 99.95% uptime.

Microsoft's next version of SQL Server is available in public preview form for both Linux and Windows. Microsoft also is introducing SQL Server 2016 SP1.

So long as SQL authentication is used for any databases on the box (think SQL server hosting db's being accessed by a web server) do I require any CALs? My understanding is that I don't unless ...