Databases

Today we are launching Try Azure Cosmos DB for free, an experience that allows anyone to play with Azure Cosmos DB, with no Azure sign up required and at no charge for a limited time.

Earlier this year at Microsoft Build, we announced the public preview of Azure Database for PostgreSQL.

As of today, the default compatibility level for new databases created in Azure SQL Database is 130.

We’re excited to announce the public preview availability of Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Database for PostgreSQL in India data centers (Central and West India).

Microsoft is committed to bringing blockchain to the enterprise—and is working with customers, partners, and the blockchain community to continue advancing its enterprise readiness.

This blog contains Data Management Gateway – ‘High Availability and Scalability’preview annoucement.

To stay competitive, today’s businesses need to make sure that they focus on their core competencies that directly deliver customer value while relying on their cloud provider to offer an affordable, reliable, and easy to use computing infrastructure that scales with their needs.

Today we are making an exciting announcement. Azure SQL Data Warehouse is increasing its compute scale threefold, raising the compute scale from 6,000 to 18,000 Data Warehouse Units (DWU) so that customers can run their most compute intensive data warehouse workloads in the cloud.

This blog is intended to provide insights on some of the data encoding issues that you may encounter while using Polybase to load data to SQL Data Warehouse.

Azure SQL Data Warehouse now supports IDENTITY column properties.

We are happy to announce our Azure SQL Data Sync Refresh!

As we approach Consensus 2017, it is with great pleasure that we announce support for complex blockchain network deployments for many more blockchain and distributed ledger protocols on Azure, including HyperLedger Fabric, R3 Corda, Quorum, Chain Core, and BlockApps, to further our goal and meet