Microsoft plans to release a "General Purpose" version of its Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance (MI) at the "general availability" (GA) commercial-release stage, "starting July 30, 2021." ...

SQL Server 2022 customers will see benefits in the areas of data integration, analytics, governance, and high availability thanks to the database’s enhanced connectivity to the Azure cloud, Microsoft ...

At its Ignite 2021 conference, Microsoft took the wraps off of new data analytics, server, and DevOps products across Azure.

Microsoft's Ignite conference was arguably headlined by Azure Arc and a revamped data analytics offering, plus Azure Stack Edge.

Figure 2. Successful Azure PowerShell Connection Output. Although this next step might have been set for other reasons, you must have a server firewall rule setup to allow incoming SQL connections ...

The clock is ticking on Microsoft’s Extended Support for SQL Server 2008/R2, unless you migrate to the Azure cloud. Here’s how ...

Among the updates to Azure today are the launch of reserved instances and the integration of Cloudyn, which Microsoft acquired earlier this year, into a new cost-management tool.

Microsoft’s Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra is perhaps best thought of as a way of extending on-premises data into Cosmos DB. There’s been demand for on-premises Cosmos DB since ...