When you need a SQL database fast, the cloud is the best way to go. Azure provides a SQL database as a PaaS that eliminates the need to get an entire SQL Server deployment up and running.

Microsoft's premade templates allows for the deployment of SQL databases without having to use complex PowerShell commands.

Learn how to use the Azure Portal to create a cloud-based SQL database with just a few mouse clicks.

However, it's somewhat limited in that it can only operate on Azure SQL Database. Elastic Jobs also requires you to create an Azure SQL Database to manage the jobs.

Q&A Get Started Using .NET Aspire with SQL Server & Azure SQL Database By David Ramel 01/23/2025 Microsoft unveiled .NET Aspire at the Build 2024 developer conference, describing it as an opinionated, ...

In this article, the author shows how to use big data query and processing language U-SQL on Azure Data Lake Analytics platform. U-SQL combines the concepts and constructs both of SQL and C#.

This capability is meant to aid with auditing sensitive data. Vulnerability Assessment As the name implies, the Vulnerability Assessment fea­ture scans Azure SQL databases for a wide variety of ...

Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server offers granular database control and flexibility. Explore its features, pricing and more in our review.