Azure SQL Database

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).

Azure SQL Database now supports backups stored in your own Azure Backup Service Vault. This allows you easily extend the built-it retention period from 35 days to up to 10 years.

New update to SQL Database Advisor greatly reduces the time required (from a week to a day) to produce and implement index tuning recommendations, making the performance tuning process much faster.

We are happy to announce that JSON support is now generally available in Azure SQL Database.

We would like to share a few customer experiences that demonstrate how Azure SQL Database Threat Detection helped address their concerns about potential threats to their database.

We’re excited to announce Azure SQL Database elastic pools are now generally available.

The built-in active geo-replication has been generally available to the Premium databases for over a year.

We are happy to announce public preview of new JSON functionalities in Azure SQL Database.

Wouldn’t it be great if WordPress worked against Azure SQL Database? Well, wait no more.

Learn how to replicate your data from SQL Server on-premises to Azure SQL DB.

This blog announces the new cross-database querying capabilities in Azure SQL Database and other improvements to elastic database query.