Microsoft has two primary platform as a service (PaaS) offerings for SQL Server running Azure: Azure SQL Database, which is primarily used for new applications that were developed and grown in the ...

Building cloud-native applications at scale requires choosing your stack carefully. One popular tool is Apache’s Cassandra project, a NoSQL database designed to scale rapidly without affecting ...

At its Ignite conference today, Microsoft announced the launch of Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra, its latest NoSQL database offering and a competitor to Cassandra-centric companies like ...

Microsoft's cloud DBaaS has had a whirlwind month with the introduction of managed instances, database migration tools and more. Here's what each feature does and when to use it. This month, Microsoft ...

If you are an old hand at Microsoft SQL Server, you have probably used the SQL Server Agent (i.e., SQL Agent) service and MSDB database for the last 20 years. With a humble and largely unchanged ...

Microsoft Corp. unveiled a slew of updates to the Azure cloud platform at its online Build 2022 developer conference today, with new capabilities for cloud-native applications, big data, hybrid cloud ...