SQL Server, Microsoft's flagship operational database, has been around for over a quarter century now. That has meant successive waves of innovation for the platform, but has also made for ...

Storage and performance can be quite different in the cloud. It's important to choose the right VM size and configure your storage properly to keep SQL Server workloads running smoothly. Microsoft ...

Microsoft's Bing News app can use Notification Hubs for instant news updates. Microsoft has unloaded a series of major updates to its Windows Azure service, including notification hubs, SQL Server ...

A solid database backup plan is just as critical in the cloud as it is on-premise, but running SQL Server on Azure virtual machine introduces a few new issues. Presented by Datavail's Andy McDermid ...

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The public cloud offers a myriad of options for providing high availability and disaster recovery protections for SQL Server database applications. Conversely, some of the options available in a ...

Microsoft has introduced a free version of SQL Server to its Azure cloud platform, enabling customers to use it for building applications, test and development, along with a monitoring and management ...