Microsoft’s new Azure database savings plans promise more flexible, cross-service cost reductions than traditional reservations, giving IT teams another lever to manage rising cloud database spend ...

Recent SQL Server 2025, Azure SQL, SSMS 22 and Fabric announcements highlight new event streaming and vector search capabilities, plus expanding monitoring and ontology tooling -- with tradeoffs in ...

Abstract: Azure SQL DB offers disaggregated storage architecture called Hyperscale. While this architecture provides storage scale out, it comes at the cost of performance of I/O from remote storage.

The recent “HITS in the cloud” webinar, hosted by Altron Digital Business and Microsoft South Africa, had a single message: SQL Server remains at the centre of enterprise operations. SQL is ubiquitous ...

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 ...

Life insurance and annuities help see families through difficult times and protect people in retirement. To help customers choose the best insurance and financial vehicles, providers strive to tailor ...

Indexers in Azure AI Search connect to external data sources over a public endpoint. If you're setting up an Azure SQL indexer for a connection to a SQL managed instance, follow the steps in this ...

Microsoft has rolled out a redesigned continuous migration assessment tool for SQL Server enabled by Azure Arc. The new experience is now generally available and brings a more streamlined, ...

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