Protection for Azure Cosmos DB and other database types using Microsoft Defender for Cloud can be enabled by "a single click" using the Azure Portal. Microsoft described how to make that happen in ...

That is why bridging the SQL expertise gap is about so much more than simply plugging resource holes. It is about unlocking agility. With the right managed service and the right platform, your teams ...

SQL databases have constraints on data types and consistency. NoSQL does away with them for the sake of speed, flexibility, and scale. One of the most fundamental choices to make when developing ...

Microsoft Corp. today announced new cloud-hosted versions of its SQL Server database service as two older on-premises varieties finally will see the end of extended support Tuesday.Having transfor ...

By using a simple wizard, database administrators (and probably non-DBAs too) can configure a provisioned MI in the cloud to serve as a secondary, failover node to a SQL Server 2022 instance on ...

Although it still has a ways to go to beat out Amazon DynamoDB or even its sibling Azure SQL Database, at this rate of growth Cosmos DB may actually surpass both in 2018. That’s impressive ...

Because -- like Google's own Cloud SQL -- SQL DB and RDS are cloud incarnations of on-premises database management systems, whereas Spanner was designed for the cloud.

Microsoft has brought its Defender for Cloud security system for weeding out configuration weaknesses in workloads to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The extension of Defender for Cloud brings the ...

Nowadays, Wilson says, Paychex is relying on the Microsoft Azure SQL Database cloud service to handle its data. "We've had a great experience with Microsoft," Wilson told Business Insider.

In the cloud era, you may wonder why Microsoft is investing big into an "on-premises" product like SQL Server. It is a complex question I wanted to answer through the lens of some of the new ...