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.
Databases
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.
New multi-tenant patterns for building SaaS applications on SQL Database
We’re delighted to announce the availability of an expanded set of sample SaaS applications, each using a different database tenancy model on SQL Database.
Last week in Azure: Data & analytics updates, Azure IP Advantage, and more
Highlights from last week in Azure for the week of November 6, 2017: Data & Analytics updates, accelerating enterprise blockchain, Azure IP Advantage, automatic OS upgrades in VM Scale Sets, and more!
Accelerating the adoption of enterprise blockchain
Over the past year, we have had the pleasure of working with several customers on their business initiatives related to blockchain’s technology.
Automatic tuning will be a new default
Automatic tuning, technology that continuously monitors and automatically improves database performance in SQL Database, will be enabled by default in the upcoming period.
Transactional replication to Azure SQL Database is now generally available
We are excited to announce that transactional replication to Azure SQL Database is now generally available (GA). This feature allows you to migrate your on-premises SQL Server databases to Azure SQL Databases with minimal downtime.
Microsoft Cosmos DB in Azure Storage Explorer – public preview
We are happy to announce the public preview of Cosmos DB in Azure Storage Explorer (ASE).