Microsoft announced last week a new pricing scheme for its SQL Azure cloud database service. Previously, SQL Azure databases were limited to either 1GB (for “Web edition”) or 10GB (for “business ...

Hyperscale combines strong write performance, flexible storage and fast replica creation for databases of nearly any size.

Microsoft today released SQL Server 2022, the latest version of its database software, which originally launched more than 33 years ago. Microsoft describes this release as the “most Azure-enabled ...

One of the advantages of the cloud is scale. We don’t call the big three cloud platforms hyperscale for nothing; they have massive data centers all around the world with millions of servers that can ...

Microsoft launched its Azure Database for MySQL and PostgreSQL services to general availability (GA) in 2018. When those services began their preview the year before, the notion that Microsoft itself ...