Microsoft announced a smorgasbord of updates to its Azure cloud platform today, primarily aimed at helping companies migrate database workloads to its datacenters. These workloads are typically mission critical, and Microsoft’s service updates are aimed ...

Microsoft has announced support for MySQL and PostgreSQL as fully managed instances on the Azure cloud platform. Additionally, the company has also launched a new NoSQL database called Cosmos DB with horizontal scaling up capabilities. Azure SQL service ...

Microsoft Azure SQL Database is an excellent Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) solution for developers, business analysts, and database administrators given its ease of use and exemplary controls. Microsoft Azure SQL Database pricing is staged across Elastic ...

Microsoft's cloud and productivity services, including Azure and Microsoft 365, experienced a significant disruption affecting thousands of customers globally. The outage, suspected to be caused by an inadvertent configuration change to Azure Front Door,

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The expanded support provides visibility into query-level metrics and detailed explain plans so all Microsoft customers can benefit from Database Monitoring With this expanded support, engineers and database administrators can quickly pinpoint and address ...

While Microsoft’s big Azure database news today is the launch of Cosmos DB, its new “planet-scale” distributed database service, there is a good chance that many developers will actually be more interested in a slightly smaller update to Azure’s ...

"It's really about choice," Rohan Kumar, Microsoft's General Manager, Database Systems, told me yesterday as he briefed me on the new offerings. Kumar further explained: "if you're a developer, you sort of come and we meet you where you are." Indeed, open ...