Developers and independent software vendors who often run hundreds — or even thousands — of separate databases for their customers now have a new option to manage them while keeping costs predictable.

Microsoft broke new ground in scalability when it launched Azure SQL Database Hyperscale. Here's what it took to make Microsoft's hyperscale vision work with the existing Azure infrastructure. When ...

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Learn how to use the Azure Portal to create a cloud-based SQL database with just a few mouse clicks. While the embrace of big data, machine learning, and IoT by business enterprises everywhere may ...

Microsoft recently published a new version of its service-level agreement (SLA) for Azure SQL Database, adding uptime perks for organizations that use the "Business Critical" tier. If organizations ...

Microsoft’s Azure SQL Data Warehouse, the company’s cloud-based database service for big data workloads, is getting yet another speed bump today. A few months ago, the company sped up the service with ...

Microsoft today announced the general availability of the open source Data API builder (DAB), which provides REST and GraphQL endpoints for Azure databases, some three years in the making. The ...

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One way that organizations are storing data in the cloud is by moving their databases to the cloud. What once meant building an entire physical server, patching it, installing software like Microsoft ...

Pricing: Pay as you go model. Key features AI-powered intelligent performance optimization. Geospatial support. Postgres version 11 supports up to 37 extensions. Integration with Cloud Services.