You can create and schedule elastic jobs that periodically run against one or many Azure SQL databases. The jobs run Transact-SQL (T-SQL) queries and perform maintenance tasks. You can define target ...

Database-level managed identity gives an individual database in Azure SQL Database its own user-assigned managed identity (UAMI). A database that has one authenticates to Azure Storage as itself, ...

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 ...

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Managed Instance, Cosmos DB, SQL Azure, Azure Table Storage, Databricks, Fabric -- Microsoft, as we all know, struggles to name its products clearly. Unclear naming can lead to customer confusion. I ...

When you need a SQL database fast, the cloud is the best way to go. Azure provides a SQL database as a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that eliminates the need to get an entire SQL Server up and running.

One way that organizations are storing data in the cloud is by moving their databases to the cloud. What once meant building an entire physical server, patching it, installing software like Microsoft ...

About 5,500 of the SQL Server faithful came out for the PASS Summit 2018 in Seattle last November. As usual, the event had the feel of a great big family reunion. It’s always a fun time, with lots of ...

Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server offers granular database control and flexibility. Explore its features, pricing and more in our review. Pricing: Pay as you go model. Key features ...