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, ...

Microsoft SQL is a relational database you can configure to run as multiple copies, or instances, on a single computer. When running a small business, keeping multiple instances of Microsoft SQL on a ...

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 ...

Pairing your on-prem SQL Server with a cloud-based instance for high availability has its challenges, but they can be overcome. Here’s how. The geographic distribution of cloud data centers makes it ...

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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 ...

Analysts say Redmond still has billions of reasons to keep backing its flagship DBMS, even as Azure, Postgres, and AI hog the ...