Using a connection to Azure Arc, which is part of the SQL Server 2022 setup process, on-premises users can now also opt for cloud-enabled billing to manage consumption spikes or for ad hoc use cases.

Azure Arc-enabled data services lets organizations carry out operations such as automated database management, on-demand scaling of operations, and the ability to set up backup and restore ...

Microsoft this week announced that Extended Security Updates (ESUs) for Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2, as managed using Azure Arc, reached the "general availability" commercial ...

If you are using a Windows Server 2022, you will get Azure Arc Setup as an optional component, whereas, for Server 2025 and later, it is a Features on Demand. Before we go ahead and install ...

The SQL Managed Instance effectively becomes a secondary replica you can fail over to and fail back from, without the need to set up an availability ... “With Azure Arc enabled SQL Server ...

With apologies to Shakespeare, Azure Arc is a set of technologies to enable hybrid IT, connecting "something" to Azure to enable it to be managed by Azure's governance features, such as Azure Policy, ...

With Azure Arc, Microsoft extended the core resource management capabilities of Azure to support external resources like Linux and Windows servers, Kubernetes clusters, SQL Server instances ...

The new Microsoft Fabric database mirroring will allow customers to set up real-time analytics ... Also, they can connect SQL Server 2025 with Azure Arc to manage a hybrid SQL Server data estate ...