Databases

News and updates from Azure Bastion, Azure Cognitive Services, Power Platform, and more.

We’re excited to share that Forrester has named Microsoft as a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Database-as-a-service, Q2 2019. This decision is based on their evaluation of Azure relational and non-relational databases.

Last month, Microsoft released Azure Blockchain Service making it easy for anyone to quickly setup and manage a blockchain network and providing a foundation for developers to build a new class of multi-party blockchain applications in the cloud.

Today’s business data ecosystem is a network of customers and partners communicating continuously with each other. The traditional way to do this is by establishing a business-to-business (B2B) relationship.

Since the launch of the open source FHIR Server for Azure on GitHub last November, we have been humbled by the tremendously positive response and surge in the use of FHIR in the healthcare community.

One of the largest gatherings of healthcare IT developers will come together on the Microsoft campus next week for HL7 FHIR DevDays, with the goal of advancing the open standard for interoperable health data, called HL7® FHIR® (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources, pronounced “fire”).

Improving patient outcomes and reducing healthcare costs depends on healthcare providers such as doctors, nurses, and specialized clinician ability to access a wide range of data at the point of patient care in the form of health records, lab results, and protocols.

How do you migrate live, mission-critical data for a flagship product that must manage billions of requests with low latency and no downtime?

Understand the underlying factors that can cause performance differences between Azure SQL Database managed instance and SQL Server and the steps you can take to make fair comparisons between SQL Server and Azure SQL Database.

Read how governments can benefit from Azure, get the latest on Azure Kubernetes service, and learn how IoT helps supply chains.

News and updates from Azure SQL Database Edge, Azure portal updates, and Azure Cosmos DB.

Optimizing compute resource allocation to achieve performance goals while controlling costs can be a challenging balance to strike especially for database workloads with complex usage patterns. SQL Database serverless automatically scales compute based on workload demand and bills for compute used per second.