Another year passes. I was hoping to write more articles instead of just these end-of-the-year screeds, but I almost died in the spring semester, and it sucked up my time. Nevertheless, I will go ...

Introducing a new cloud billing option for SQL Server customers, providing pay-as-you-go flexibility across on-premises and cloud environments. License by vCore [4]New Allows customers to elect to ...

description Learn how to create a new watcher to monitor an Azure SQL database, elastic pool, or SQL managed instance using Microsoft Entra authentication and private connectivity. This article shows ...

India’s digital revolution is gathering speed, fuelled by rapid cloud adoption and a surge in online services—from e-commerce to logistics and fintech. Yet amid this data tsunami, legacy databases ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

Microsoft is bulking up its Azure SQL database services on the back of Intel's "Ice Lake" Xeon and AMD's "Milan" Epyc server chipsets. The company this week started a public preview of its ...

You can configure the maintenance window for a database or elastic pool in Azure SQL Database, or anytime after a resource is created. The ability to change to a different maintenance window is not ...

We’re expanding the rights for Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server so you can address more scenarios in your organization. These new rights will let you access a broader pool of SQL Server services on ...