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.

Azure HorizonDB introduces cloud-native PostgreSQL with disaggregated compute and storage for faster scaling and failover. HorizonDB’s Rust-based storage engine improves security, reliability, and ...

Enterprises need data, and data needs to be stored, with a flexible, portable environment that scales from developers’ laptops to global clouds. That storage also needs to be able to run on any OS and ...

At today’s Ignite 2025 event, Microsoft announced one of the biggest Azure data updates in years. The company has announced the general availability of SQL Server 2025. That has come after a long ...

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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 ...

Microsoft Corp.’s data-center crunch will continue for longer than the company has previously outlined, underscoring the software giant’s struggles to keep up with cloud demand. Many of Microsoft’s US ...

Microsoft’s declarative REST and GraphQL API design tool supports MySQL and Postgres as well as Azure databases and works anywhere you can run a Docker container. Microsoft Azure is now so big it’s ...

Microsoft has launched Azure Arc-enabled SQL Server on Windows in the US Government, Virginia region. The Redmond giant called this a "major first step". Microsoft has recently announced that Azure ...

The Azure SQL team has released version 1.34.0 of the MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code, a cross‑platform tool for developing against SQL Server, Azure SQL Database and SQL Database in Fabric.

We’re excited to announce a new migration capability in Azure Arc to simplify and accelerate SQL Server migration. This new capability, now generally available, is powered by Azure Database Migration ...