Learn how to use the Azure Portal to create a cloud-based SQL database with just a few mouse clicks.

SQL Azure Database is a key part of the Azure Services Platform and sets out to rival Amazon's SimpleDB. The free trial will last until November, at which point the full service will be rolled out.

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Paychex explains why it bet on Microsoft's cloud database and AI services. On Monday, Microsoft also announced Azure SQL Database Hyperscale.

As mentioned earlier, you can still use SQL Agent on Azure VMs and, with some limitations, on Azure SQL Managed Instances. With all of those options competing for your attention, just remember that ...

With these elastic database pools, customers pay for the aggregate of all the databases instead of for each one separately.