Hybrid + multicloud

Azure Security Center automatically collects, analyzes, and integrates log data from a variety of Azure resources.

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.

If your CEO asked about your progress moving to the cloud compared to other companies, would you know the answer?

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

Over the last couple days there has been a lot of public discussion about a current ransomware attack known as WannaCrypt.  This malware has caused customer pain and concern.

We’ve made improvements to SQL Data Sync including PowerShell programmability, better security and resilience, enhanced monitoring and troubleshooting, and availability in more regions.

The built-in geo-replication feature has been generally available to SQL Database customers since 2014. During this time one of the most common customer requests has been about supporting transparent failover with automatic activation.

In today’s cloud-centric world, enterprises increasingly focus on their core competencies while relying on their cloud provider to offer an affordable, worry-free computing infrastructure that scales with their needs. Using managed services helps the bottom line, improves time to market and ultimately drives business.

As we look across what is happening at Microsoft Build, we are excited to announce the preview of managed database services with Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Database for PostgreSQL.

Given Microsoft’s love for open source and the goal to provide developers with choices, I am happy to share with you that earlier today, at the Microsoft Build 2017 conference in Seattle, Scott Guthrie announced the preview for managed database service for PostgreSQL, Azure Database

With this blog post we announce the availability of the technical preview of the Microsoft Azure Stack Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager.