Azure SQL Database

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

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!

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.