Recently, Microsoft announced the preview of serverless for Hyperscale in the Azure SQL Database, which brings together the benefits of serverless and Hyperscale into a single database solution.

Serverless is a compute tier for single databases in Azure SQL Database that automatically scales compute based on workload demand and bills for the amount of compute used per second.

And for Azure SQL Database customers that need to scale compute and memory as needed, Microsoft rolled out a new serverless pricing option that lets developers pay by the second for their usage.

Name notwithstanding, Azure SQL Database Serverless is cool, and its impact is such that I plan to implement it for at least two of my customers in coming weeks.

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Behold the power of AWS into forcing Microsoft to choose a dumb name like Azure SQL Database Serverless. Clearly, I’m not a fan of the name, but the product itself is very coll.

The targets can be on different servers (including Hyperscale and Serverless databases), subscriptions (including Azure SQL elastic pools), shard maps, or regions.

At Build 2019, Microsoft rolled out a slew of IoT, mapping, databases, storage, and analytics updates across Azure services.

Azure’s Cosmos DB is one of the platform’s foundations, powering many of its key services. Designed from the ground up as a distributed database, it implements a set of different consistency ...