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 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 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'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 ...

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 ...

"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 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 ...