Databases

If you’re a .NET developer, we’re excited to introduce a new resource that can help you learn about Azure: The Azure Quick Start Guide for .NET Developers!

Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft’s globally distributed, multi-model database. Azure Cosmos DB enables you to elastically and independently scale throughput and storage across any number of Azure’s geographic regions with a single click.

We are pleased to announce that Spring Data Azure Cosmos DB is now available to provide essential Spring Data support for Azure Cosmos DB using SQL API.

At Microsoft, our approach is to listen to customers and bring solutions and tools that can help solve their problems. It is at the heart of everything we do.

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) with Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) support for Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Data Warehouse.

There is increasingly a need among users to develop and debug their Extract Transform/Load (ETL) and Extract Load/Transform (ELT) workflows iteratively. Now, Azure Data Factory (ADF) visual tools allow you to do iterative development and debugging.

Azure SQL Data Warehouse recently announced the preview release of the Optimized for Compute performance tier providing customers with an enhanced offering of the service.

Keep current on what’s happening in Azure, including what’s now in preview, generally available, news & updates, and more.

Taking advantage of TDE with BYOK for databases that are geo-replicated to maintain high availability requires to configure and test the scenario carefully. This post will go over the most common configuration options.

Azure Data Factory (ADF) visual tools public preview was announced on January 16, 2018. With visual tools, you can iteratively build, debug, deploy, operationalize and monitor your big data pipelines.

Focus on rapid app development and accelerate your time to market with fast and easy development with Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Database for PostgreSQL.

The preview for long-term backup retention in Azure SQL Database was announced in October 2016, providing you with a way to easily enable long-term retention for your databases…