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 ...

You can directly onboard Windows Server machines to Azure Arc using a built-in utility. The wizard automates onboarding, checks prerequisites, and fetches and ...

Here are some tips and tricks for creating redundant Azure AD Connect server that can help keep business running if the primary server fails. Organizations often use Azure AD Connect to maintain the ...

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 ...

At today's kickoff for Microsoft Ignite, the company announced that SQL Server 2025 is finally coming. No timing was announced for the release, but based on prior versions, I would expect to see a ...

The cloud is becoming increasingly distributed, with container technologies allowing easy deployment of what had been cloud functionality to devices at the edge of the network. What began with ...

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 ...

Today, Microsoft announced the preview of SQL Server 2025, the successor to the popular SQL Server 2022, which was released in 2022. With SQL Server 2025, Microsoft is targeting AI apps both ...

It's official: Those Linux on Azure and and other goodies that have been on Redmond's cloud roadmap for months (and in some cases, years) finally are coming to a Microsoft cloud near you. Microsoft ...