Azure SQL Managed Instance General Purpose is "a tier of Microsoft's relational database service, based on SQL Server, that operates like an on-premises SQL Server instance," Snodgrass explained ...

When moving from on-premises SQL Server to fully managed database services like Azure SQL Managed Instance, organizations can take a significant step in their digital transformation journey ...

A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, complete with a PowerShell script that handles the networking configuration.

On that front, Microsoft previewed Azure SQL Database Managed Instance, which is an option for moving local SQL Server workloads to the Azure SQL Database service, which is hosted and managed by ...

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 ...

SQL Server’s data resiliency story gets a boost thanks to the new “link feature” in Azure SQL Managed Instance. According to Kumar’s post, the link feature includes a built-in Distributed Availability ...

This Managed Instance can also be used as a readable replica, without applying SQL Server (unlike SQL Server readable replicas). If you rent SQL Server in Azure, the price of SQL Server stays the ...

At its Ignite conference today, Microsoft announced the launch of Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra, its latest NoSQL database offering and a competitor to Cassandra-centric companies ...