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 ...

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 ...

One of the Azure SQL-related announcements that did not get a lot of publicity at May's Microsoft Build conference was the Azure SQL Database local database experience. With all the hype around ...

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.

Users also get the Query Store hints that database developers can already use to tell in Azure SQL DB and Managed SQL Instances to help speed up queries without rewriting them.

Hyperscale data on Azure Microsoft has been expanding its existing Azure database tool to deliver hyperscale versions of both Azure Database for PostgreSQL and Azure SQL.

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 ...

Plus, Azure Copilot integration adds Azure SQL Database skills into Microsoft Copilot for Azure, providing self-guided assistance that enables users to manage databases and solve issues independently.

However, SQL Agent faces one important shortcoming: It can run on Azure VMs and on Azure SQL Managed Instances, but it is not available on Azure SQL Database. As a result, we need a substitute.

Microsoft has announced a private preview of Copilot for SQL Azure, which offers a natural language for SQL conversion and self-help for database administration.