Microsoft is readying a preview of a new version of its Azure SQL database-as-a-service for release later this calendar year. The coming version will include new SQL Server capabilities that will ...

Microsoft today released SQL Server 2022, the latest version of its database software, which originally launched more than 33 years ago. Microsoft describes this release as the “most Azure ...

Microsoft's relational database engine has had the same licensing model since 2012. The new version released this week brings significant changes that brings SQL Server closer to Azure SQL's ...

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

"Customers on Microsoft Azure can launch fully supported instances of SQL Server 2017 or SQL Server 2019 -- Web, Standard, and Enterprise editions -- on both Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu Pro 20 ...

Microsoft has quietly been putting a lot of impressive features in Azure SQL Database, and I expected them to land in the next version of SQL Server. While PaaS services like Azure SQL DB and ...

Microsoft today announced ... and then deploy it to platforms that feature Azure SQL Database, good old SQL Server on premises and this new edge version. SQL Database Edge can run in both ...

I am going to be focusing on the SQL Server 2012 packages in this article. These will allow you to query your Azure SQL database. You will need: Microsoft System CLR Types for Microsoft SQL Server ...

In a recent benchmark, Microsoft claims that SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines can be up to 57% faster and cost up to 54% less than running a similar workload on AWS EC2. The study compares ...