Azure SQL Database

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!

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.

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

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.

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.

We’re excited to announce the preview of an additional purchasing model to the Azure SQL Database Elastic Pool and Single Database deployment options.

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…

Data is central to digital transformation. We have seen many customers moving their data workloads to Azure which benefits from the inherent performance and agility of cloud.

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

We are pleased to announce the general availability of columnstore index features for Standard databases in the S3 and above pricing tiers.

Today, I am excited to announce the general availability (GA) of Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Database for PostgreSQL.

Last week, it became even more evident that Azure is the best place for all of your applications and data with numerous announcements about investments that dramatically expand the choice and ROI of moving your SQL Server and open source applications to Azure.