Last week in Azure: Securing Azure infrastructure from CPU vulnerability, and more
Last week in Azure started 2018 with addressing a far-reaching security vulnerability at the CPU level, new developer tools for big data, tech content, and more.
Databases
Last week in Azure: Azure HDInsight, Azure Cosmos DB, and more
Catch up on what you may have missed over the holidays, including important Azure HDInsights news.
New connectors available in Azure Data Factory V2
We are excited to announce that Azure Data Factory newly enabled copying data from a number of data stores using Copy Activity in V2.
How cloud speed helps SQL Server DBAs
This blog post will review how engineering model transformations, driven by cloud requirements, resulted in several improvements in how we build, ship and service SQL Server.
Last week in Azure: OSBA, DevOps and Kubernetes, VM sizes, and more
Last week in Azure brought Open Service Broker for Azure, community projects and partnerships to extend what you can do with Kubernetes and Azure, and several storage-optimized and burstable VM sizes are now available in GA.
Performance best practices for using Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure Database services for PostgreSQL and MySQL at Build 2017 which is a simple, fully managed database service for PostgreSQL and MySQL that removes the…
Last week in Azure: Migrating VMWare environments to Azure, and more
Highlights from last week in Azure for the week of November 20, 2017: Transforming your VMWare environment with Azure, Azure Advisor updates, and more.
Automatic tuning introduces Automatic plan correction and T-SQL management
Azure SQL Database automatic tuning, industry’s first truly auto-tuning database based on Artificial Intelligence, is now providing more flexibility and power with the global introduction of the following new features.
Technical reference implementation for enterprise BI and reporting
We are happy to announce the technical reference implementation of an enterprise grade infrastructure to help accelerate the deployment of a BI and reporting solution to augment your data science and…
Azure SQL Databases Disaster Recovery 101
Azure DB provides not only one, but two different solutions to recover your data in those disasters: Geo Restore and Geo Replication.
MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and MySQL: more choices on Microsoft Azure
I am excited to join all of you virtually from Microsoft Connect(); and to share some of the highlights from our journey to enable a great database experience in Azure, especially for developers.
Dear Cassandra Developers, welcome to Azure #CosmosDB!
Today we’re excited to launch native support for Apache Cassandra API in Azure Cosmos DB – offering you Cassandra as-a-service powered by Azure Cosmos DB.