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

An Azure subscription An administrative account that has permissions to create a SQL database The AzureRm PowerShell modules from the PowerShell Gallery (Install-Module -Name AzureRm) A resource group ...

Joey on SQL Server How To Automate Tasks in Azure SQL Database Knowing how to automate tasks in the cloud will make you a more productive DBA.

By using a single tool like PowerShell, you can access your data wherever it is stored. It does not matter if it is in the cloud in an Azure SQL database or in an on-premises MS-SQL server, MySQL or ...

Strong security built into Azure SQL Database for fully encrypted data both at-rest and in-motion on edge nodes and edge gateways Ability to combine data streaming and time-series with in-database ...

Joey on SQL Server A Deep Dive Inside Azure SQL Database, Part 2 In the second part of this series, Joey describes the methods that Microsoft uses to manage code rollouts, and how it detects ...

AI assistant available in private preview provides natural language to SQL conversion and self-help for database administration.

Microsoft today announced an interesting update to its database lineup with the preview of Azure SQL Database Edge, a new tool that brings the same ...

As Microsoft today announced during its Build developer conference keynote in San Francisco, its new Azure SQL Database elastic databases (yep, that's the complete name) allow developers to gather ...

With Azure AI Agent Service, agents can interpret user intent, plan tasks, and invoke database logic, like vector search or semantic filtering, without manual SQL input. This enables conversational ...