Learn how to use Microsoft Entra authentication to connect to Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and Azure Synapse Analytics. To connect to your Azure SQL resource, you need to have ...

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.

Microsoft is moving another core database management component into the cloud, continuing its broader shift away from traditional on-premises infrastructure. According to Neowin, the company has ...

Azure SQL Query Store now captures read-only queries, expanding performance visibility beyond transactional workloads DBAs can analyze execution plans and runtime statistics for primary and read-only ...

Microsoft introduces unique hostnames for Azure Functions and Logic Apps, reducing endpoint security risks. Non-enumerable Azure app URLs limit reconnaissance, scanning, targeted attacks and dangling ...

As agent-based AI systems grow more sophisticated, developers are moving well beyond basic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) into a new era of autonomous, tool-integrated, and multi-agent ...

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 ...

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’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 ...