Another year passes. I was hoping to write more articles instead of just these end-of-the-year screeds, but I almost died in the spring semester, and it sucked up my time. Nevertheless, I will go ...

description Learn how to create a new watcher to monitor an Azure SQL database, elastic pool, or SQL managed instance using Microsoft Entra authentication and private connectivity. This article shows ...

India’s digital revolution is gathering speed, fuelled by rapid cloud adoption and a surge in online services—from e-commerce to logistics and fintech. Yet amid this data tsunami, legacy databases ...

You can configure the maintenance window for a database or elastic pool in Azure SQL Database, or anytime after a resource is created. The ability to change to a different maintenance window is not ...

Implications for Elastic Pools: When deciding between DTU-based and vCore-based purchasing models for Azure SQL Database, it’s important to consider not only the needs of a single database but also ...

In this post, I will compare the three main services that offer SQL capabilities in Azure: Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and SQL Server on Azure VMs. In this post, I will compare ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

Microsoft is bulking up its Azure SQL database services on the back of Intel's "Ice Lake" Xeon and AMD's "Milan" Epyc server chipsets. The company this week started a public preview of its ...

Introducing a new cloud billing option for SQL Server customers, providing pay-as-you-go flexibility across on-premises and cloud environments. License by vCore [4]New Allows customers to elect to ...

We’re expanding the rights for Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server so you can address more scenarios in your organization. These new rights will let you access a broader pool of SQL Server services on ...