Quest powers Spotlight Cloud with Azure
Spotlight Cloud is the first built on Azure database performance monitoring solution focused on SQL Server customers.
Databases
Securing Azure SQL Databases with managed identities just got easier
We are happy to share the second preview release of the Azure Services App Authentication library, version 1.2.0. This release enables simple and seamless authentication to Azure SQL Database for existing .NET applications with no code changes – only configuration changes!
Optimize performance using Azure Database for PostgreSQL Recommendations
You no longer have to be a database expert to optimize your database. Make your job easier and start taking advantage of Azure Database for PostgreSQL Recommendation for Microsoft Azure Database for PostgreSQL today.
Microsoft driving standards for the token economy with the Token Taxonomy Framework
Today’s announcement of the Token Taxonomy Initiative (TTI) is a milestone in the maturity of the blockchain industry.
Smarter, faster, safer: Azure SQL Data Warehouse is simply unmatched
Today, we want to call attention to the exciting news that Azure SQL Data Warehouse has again outperformed other cloud providers in the most recent GigaOm benchmark report.
Want to evaluate your cloud analytics provider? Here are the three questions to ask.
We all want the truth. To properly assess your cloud analytics provider, ask them about the only three things that matter: independent benchmark results, company-wide access to insights, and security & privacy.
Bitnami Apache Airflow Multi-Tier now available in Azure Marketplace
A few months ago, we released a blog post that provided guidance on how to deploy Apache Airflow on Azure.
How Skype modernized its backend infrastructure using Azure Cosmos DB – Part 1
Founded in 2003, Skype has grown to become one of the world’s premier communication services, making it simple to share experiences with others wherever they are.
How Skype modernized its backend infrastructure using Azure Cosmos DB – Part 2
Skype found the perfect fit in Azure Cosmos DB, the globally distributed NoSQL database service from Microsoft.
How Skype modernized its backend infrastructure using Azure Cosmos DB – Part 3
Using Azure Cosmos DB, Skype replaced three monolithic, geographically isolated data stores with a single, globally distributed user data service that delivers better throughput, lower latencies, and improved availability.
Resource governance in Azure SQL Database
This blog post continues the Azure SQL Database architecture series where we share background on how we run the service, as described by the architects who originally created the service.
Happy birthday to managed Open Source RDBMS services in Azure!
March 20, 2019 marked the first anniversary of general availability for our managed open source RDBMS services Azure Database for PostgreSQL and Azure Database for MySQL.