Databases

In mid-July, I blogged about the exciting updates and additions we had made to the Azure Database Migration Service (DMS) and our data migration tools.

In March 2018, Microsoft announced general availability of Azure Database for PostgreSQL. A simple and fully managed database service for PostgreSQL that removes the complexities around infrastructure management, data availability, protection, and scale.

We are excited to announce the upcoming general availability (GA) of the General Purpose service tier in Azure SQL Database Managed Instance on October 1, 2018!

Since its conception in 2010, as a cloud-born database, we have carefully designed and engineered Azure Cosmos DB to exploit the three fundamental properties of the cloud.

In July 2018, I blogged about all of the great work this team has done to deliver additional features and functionality to our Azure database services for MySQL and PostgreSQL.

Data is more critical than ever in all aspects of modern business. As more organizations embark on digital transformation and embrace a data-driven culture, a common IT challenge is building the definitive source of truth for trusted, curated data.

In this blogpost, you will learn how Azure SQL Database intelligent performance feature Intelligent Insights has successfully helped a customer troubleshoot a hard to find 6-month intermittent database performance issue in a single day only.

Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) and Always Encrypted are two different encryption technologies offered by SQL Server and Azure SQL Database. Generally, encryption protects Always Encrypted protect data from unauthorized access in different scenarios.

Hello VLDB attendees! Welcome to Rio De Janeiro. I wanted to take this opportunity to share with you some of the exciting work in data that’s going on in the Azure Data team at Microsoft, and to invite you to take a closer look.

Today, we announce the broader regional availability of the industry-leading performance provided by Azure SQL Data Warehouse (Azure SQL DW).

We are excited to announce the general availability of Virtual Network (VNet) service endpoints for Azure Database for MySQL and PostgreSQL in all regions where the service is available…

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