Microsoft offers two paths for running enterprise databases: SQL Server, which you install and manage yourself, and Azure SQL, which Microsoft runs for you as a managed service. Both use the same ...

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It shouldn’t be a surprise that there’s a lot of Azure you can run on premises, thanks to platforms like Azure Stack. But there’s more to on-premises Azure than the familiar platforms and services.

This repository contains the Azure SQL bindings for Azure Functions extension code as well as a quick start tutorial and samples illustrating how to use the binding in different ways. The types of ...

A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, complete with a PowerShell script that handles the networking configuration.

Windows Authentication is one of the features of the Native SQL server which is a secure way of connecting to the SQL server. Windows authentication is one of the authentication methods where the ...

A Long back, I set out to establish transactional replication from SQL Managed Instance to on-premises SQL Server. What I initially thought would be a straightforward task ended up consuming 4 hours ...

PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client ...

Hackers have been observed trying to breach cloud environments through Microsoft SQL Servers vulnerable to SQL injection. Microsoft's security researchers report that this lateral movement technique ...

With apologies to Shakespeare, Azure Arc is a set of technologies to enable hybrid IT, connecting "something" to Azure to enable it to be managed by Azure's governance features, such as Azure Policy, ...

Microsoft’s SQL Server Migration Assistant lets you move your data and schema to different SQL Servers. Here’s what you need to know about the tool. The Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant is a ...