Microsoft announced this week that it plans to release a "General Purpose" version of its Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance (MI) at the "general availability" (GA) commercial-release stage, ...

Azure SQL Managed Instance gains SQL Server 2025 update policy control. GA policy balances new engine features with operational stability governance. Enhanced update management supports enterprise ...

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 ...

Moving to the Microsoft Azure public cloud, admins and developers can select from an array of instance types. A series of services -- storage, scaling, caching, databases and more -- support and ...

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 ...

SQL Server on Azure Local is generally available. Review disconnected deployment requirements, separate licensing, and recovery planning before adopting it. Microsoft has made SQL Server on Azure ...

Cloud adoption gives organizations the flexibility to scale infrastructure on demand, launch new services quickly, and support a modern workforce. But that flexibility can come with an unexpected ...

Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is an integrated environment to manage a SQL Server infrastructure. It provides a user interface and a group of tools with rich script editors that ...

Microsoft has ignited the next stage in the discontinuation of SQL Data Sync: As of September 9, it is no longer possible to create new SQL Data Sync deployments in Azure subscriptions that have not ...