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

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

Small businesses can create and access an SQL database of their creation for as little as $4.99/month. This tutorial shows you how to use the Azure Portal to create a cloud-based SQL database with ...

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.

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 ...

Like its larger brethren, Azure SQL Database Edge will also support graph data and comes with the same security and encryption features that can, for example, protect the data at rest and in ...

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 ...

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 ...