Microsoft not only wants to encrypt data at rest; it’s also attempting to provide other protections that matter more with data used in applications. Azure SQL’s new functionality comes in ...

However, what I wanted to focus on in this article is the public preview of Always Encrypted with secure enclaves in Azure SQL Database. Encryption has always been challenging to implement, but if ...

The company's Transparent Data Encryption option, borrowed from SQL Server, is now generally available as part of numerous upgrades to its cloud database platform.

Azure SQL Data Warehouse also comes with a hybrid configuration option for hosting in the Azure cloud or on-premises -- as opposed to cloud-only for Redshift ... The elastic databases support ...

Azure SQL Data Warehouse will be available as a preview in June, ... The elastic databases support full-text search, column-level access rights and instant encryption of data. They "allow ISVs and ...

If you want to build a copy or move data from a Hyperscale database, you will need to use other services like Azure Data Factory, the export service, or even BCP scripts. It also does not support ...

At PASS Summit 2017, Microsoft announced SQL Operations Studio to help devs and admins monitor database performance and boost efficiency while Azure picked up a new "compute-optimized" service tier.

SQL Server Analysis Services, one of the key features of Microsoft's relational database enterprise offering, is going to the cloud. The company announced Tuesday that it's launching the public ...

In my case, I used T-SQL commands in this tutorial, with SQL Server Management Studio to interact with the data (you will need version 18.4 or newer to pass in the attestation service), to encrypt ...