Microsoft this week announced various Azure SQL Database improvements, including migration, high-availability and information protection options, plus some open source workload additions. Most ...

On August 30, Microsoft announced the public preview of the Azure Database Migration Service (DMS) to support online migrations of various databases to Azure. What’s an “online migration”? Online ...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud service has soared to become the No. 2 cloud provider behind Amazon Web Services, and although Microsoft will tell you it’s because of the breadth of Azure’s offerings, an ...

Microsoft Corp. today announced a slew of new services and updates to its Azure public cloud platform designed to make it easier for users to migrate database workloads to its cloud data centers.

Despite more than a decade of cloud migration, there’s still a vast amount of data running on-premises. That’s not surprising since data migrations, even between similar systems, are complex, slow, ...

As SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 reach the end of support in 2019, you’ll have an opportunity to upgrade to a cloud database service. Follow this step-by-step guide to manage change effectively as you ...

Recently, I was approached by a small but growing technology company with an urgent problem: Microsoft’s announcement regarding the retirement of Azure Database for MariaDB had caught them completely ...

Yugabyte Inc. said today that its unified database migration service YugabyteDB Voyager is now generally available, giving enterprises a simplified way to migrate workloads to its open-source ...