In its database offerings, the Microsoft Azure cloud is starting to look a lot more like the Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) cloud. It's another new Azure offering, though, that may see even AWS ...

Perhaps the headliner is Azure Synapse Analytics, a service now in preview that leverages on-demand or provisioned resources to ingest, prepare, manage, and serve data for business intelligence and AI ...

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 Database, Microsoft’s flagship relational database product in the Azure Cloud, always has new features in the works. Here’s a feature now in public preview which I really like—online ...

In recent releases of SQL Server, Microsoft has delivered a great deal of feature enhancements and performance improvements. This rapid delivery has been facilitated by some development changes at ...

Other database updates include the availability of an Azure Database for PostgreSQL extension for Azure AI and the addition of Copilot capabilities to Azure SQL DB. Microsoft released multiple updates ...

Microsoft has announced a private preview of Copilot in Azure SQL Database, an AI assistant that improves productivity in the Azure portal by offering natural language to SQL conversion, along with ...

Microsoft has struck new partnerships that will see its Windows Azure cloud platform appear as a private cloud offering. The Azure cloud platform - which provides scalable computing power and storage, ...

Managing SQL Server across hybrid and multi-cloud environments has long posed a challenge for database administrators. With data sprawled across on-premises infrastructure, cloud platforms, and edge ...

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Data developers using Microsoft's Azure cloud have several new offerings to work with as database services for MySQL and PostgreSQL, along with Azure Databricks, are now generally available. After a ...