Azure SQL Database

Azure SQL Data Sync allows users to synchronize data between Azure SQL Databases and SQL Server databases in one-direction or bi-direction.

The Graphical Execution Plan feature within SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is now supported for SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW)! With a click of a button, you can create a graphical representation of a distributed query plan for SQL DW.

Last week in Azure included several serverless topics that included Azure Functions and IoT, while some of the key Azure shows served up container-based content for your consideration.

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 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.

Highlights from last week in Azure for the week of November 20, 2017: Transforming your VMWare environment with Azure, Azure Advisor updates, and more.

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.

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 DB provides not only one, but two different solutions to recover your data in those disasters: Geo Restore and Geo Replication.

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.

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!

Automatic tuning, technology that continuously monitors and automatically improves database performance in SQL Database, will be enabled by default in the upcoming period.