With the latest public preview available, it’s time to decide if you want to upgrade to Microsoft’s most cloud-connected version of SQL Server so far. Three decades on, SQL Server is still a database ...

A relational database is a type of database that organizes data points with defined relationships for easy access. In the relational database model, the data structures-- data tables, indexes and ...

SQL Server is primarily built around a row-based table structure that connects related data elements in different tables to one another, avoiding the need to redundantly store data in multiple places ...

Azure database savings plans cut cloud costs across SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL and Cosmos DB. Unlike reservations, Azure savings plans offer cross-region, cross-service flexibility with simpler pricing.

At Microsoft's Ignite digital event this week, the company is announcing the private preview of SQL Server 2022, the next version of its three-decades-old relational database management system (RDBMS) ...

Managed Instance, Cosmos DB, SQL Azure, Azure Table Storage, Databricks, Fabric -- Microsoft, as we all know, struggles to name its products clearly. Unclear naming can lead to customer confusion. I ...

Relational SQL databases, which have been around since the 1980s, historically ran on mainframes or single servers—that’s all we had. If you wanted the database to handle more data and run faster, you ...