Azure SQL Database

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.

The Azure Security Center (ASC) analysts team reviews and investigates ASC alerts to gain insight into security incidents affecting Microsoft Azure customers, helping improve Azure Security alerts…

Today we are happy to announce the preview of the latest edition to our service tiers, Premium RS, a 4TB increase of storage limits for Premium P11 and P15, and along with it a new, enhanced portal experience for selecting and managing service tiers and

In this computer science course, you will learn how to deploy, design, and load data using Microsoft’s Azure SQL Data Warehouse, or SQL DW. You’ll also learn about data distribution, compressed in-memory indexes, PolyBase for Big Data, and elastic scale.

We would like to announce that Azure SQL Database Threat Detection will be generally available in spring 2017 and share few customer experiences that demonstrate how Azure SQL Database Threat Detection provides an important layer of security built into the Azure SQL Database service.

We are excited to announce the availability of an in-browser query tool that provides you an efficient way to execute queries on your Azure SQL Databases and Azure SQL Data Warehouses without leaving the Azure Portal.

Azure SQL Database is increasing the read and writer performance

Columnstore index is the preferred technology to run analytics queries in Azure SQL Databases. We recently announced general availability  if In-Memory technologies for all Premium databases.

In-Memory OLTP in Azure SQL Database improves performance and introduces cost savings for transaction processing, data ingestion, and transient data scenarios.

In-Memory technologies are now generally available in Azure SQL Database, to optimize performance of transaction processing, analytics, as well as hybrid transactional and analytical workloads (HTAP).