Unlike Azure SQL Database, Managed Instances are priced using a more traditional model. Users simply select the number of virtual cores -- eight, 16 or 24 -- and the rest of the configuration.

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 ...

New open-source efforts from Snowflake aim to help solve that unsolved challenges of text-to-SQL and inference performance for enterprise AI.

SQL Server 2008 R2, which ships this month, allows end users to tap into the powerful ... standardized interface to create a model for data, making it easy to define data types, groups and a ...

The underlying language model-powered systems do the rest of the job, allowing users to simply ... over custom data sources, two main approaches come into play: text-to-SQL or retrieval-augmented ...