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 SQL ...

Microsoft has announced that read-only queries are now captured in the primary Query Store for Azure SQL, expanding visibility into database performance and workload behavior. Pre ...

How Microsoft made Azure SQL more available by making recovery faster Your email has been sent Databases are wonderful things, until they go wrong. Then you’re left waiting for a recovery to unwind ...

Microsoft is allowing testers to register, as of December 7, for a public Community Technology Preview (CTP) test build of the reporting services technology for its SQL Azure cloud database. Microsoft ...

Microsoft has released a free trial of its cloud-based relational database. The community technology preview (CTP) of SQL Azure Database was made available Tuesday, along with a preview of an SQL ...

Google Cloud Platform today released three database services from beta, signaling that they’re ready for production use. Cloud SQL, Cloud Bigtable and Cloud Datastore are all now in general release, ...

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Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...

With Extended Support for SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 ending in July 2019, to be followed six months later by the end of Extended Support for Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 in January 2020 ...

Microsoft outlined some of the new features coming in the next release of SQL Azure -- which the company said will arrive in Q4 2011 -- during Day 2 of the PASS Summit, taking place this week in ...