Microsoft has added a new free tier for Azure Cosmos DB, its multi-model, globally distributed cloud database. Here's how it works.

Microsoft is enabling its free SQL CE (SQL Server Compact Edition) database to work within ASP.Net Web applications, thus providing a lightweight database option for ASP.Net Web development, a ...

Microsoft is enabling its free SQL CE (SQL Server Compact Edition) database to work within ASP.Net Web applications, thus providing a lightweight database option for ASP.Net Web development, a ...

I've kept you informed over the years about not just the latest news and features in SQL Server, but across the entire Microsoft Data Platform, both on-premise and in the cloud. This includes ...

Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle SQL Developer (formerly code-named Project Raptor), a free database development tool.

Particularly in the case of SQL Server, introducing vector columns may require schema evolution, which can be disruptive. Of course Azure Cosmos DB is schema-free, meaning that while there is schema, ...

New SQL native databases such as CockroachDB and Yugabyte are showing robust adoption, while non-relational (NoSQL) databases increasingly provide SQL interfaces to their data. In light of this ...