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.

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.

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.

Microsoft’s Cosmos DB database can now be used at the center of an event-driven app built with serverless technologies. (Microsoft Image) Microsoft’s strategy for helping its customers use one ...

U-SQL is a variant of the Structured Query Language -- combining declarative SQL with imperative C# -- designed to help developers efficiently analyze data in various relational stores, including ...

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.

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

In late 2016, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure SQL Database In-Memory technologies. In-Memory processing is only available in Azure Premium database tiers and provides ...

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 ...