Microsoft has just added support for query hints to Azure SQL Database, giving database administrators a powerful tool to manage the performance of ISV application code. Here's how it works.

Performance is further enhanced by Azure Accelerated Networking ... noted Talius.In addition, Azure SQL Data Warehouse now supports up to 128 concurrent queries, allowing more users to query ...

This addition was added in SQL Server 2017 and is also available on all flavors of Azure SQL ... and the insight into query performance is invaluable. Just last night I was able to troubleshoot ...

Azure SQL Managed Instance, and Azure Synapse Analytics, within or outside of elastic pools. If you’re using one of the Azure data­bases, you can take advantage of Query Performance Insight for many ...

What once meant building an entire physical server, patching it, installing software like Microsoft SQL Server, tuning it to meet performance SLAs and managing ... These will allow you to query your ...

which can now optimize queries in a number of more complex scenarios, for example. Also interesting is a new pay-as-you-go billing model for SQL server through Azure Arc, Microsoft’s platform ...

A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, ...

(GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Cloud customers are getting used to the idea of paying only for what they use while enjoying on-demand performance ... Azure Database for PostgreSQL and Azure SQL ...

This is designed for analytics and data warehouses, and offers the same level of 100x performance improvements SQL Server 2014 customers have seen on their own servers. SQL Azure Database also now ...

“We’re thrilled to offer SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer with Azure SQL Database support in the Azure Marketplace,” said Gerardo Dada, vice president, product marketing, SolarWinds.