Azure SQL Database

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News and updates from Azure SQL Database Edge, Azure portal updates, and Azure Cosmos DB.

Optimizing compute resource allocation to achieve performance goals while controlling costs can be a challenging balance to strike especially for database workloads with complex usage patterns. SQL Database serverless automatically scales compute based on workload demand and bills for compute used per second.

The world of data changes at a rapid pace, with more and more data being projected to be stored and processed at the edge.

We are at an incredibly exciting technology inflection point.

Spark + AI Summit – Developing for the intelligent cloud and intelligent edge; Announcing Azure Backup support to move Recovery Services vaults; Azure SQL Data Warehouse reserved capacity and software plans now generally available; and much more.

We are happy to share the second preview release of the Azure Services App Authentication library, version 1.2.0. This release enables simple and seamless authentication to Azure SQL Database for existing .NET applications with no code changes – only configuration changes!

Today, we want to call attention to the exciting news that Azure SQL Data Warehouse has again outperformed other cloud providers in the most recent GigaOm benchmark report.

This blog post continues the Azure SQL Database architecture series where we share background on how we run the service, as described by the architects who originally created the service.

Today, we are excited to announce three new Azure Reserved VM Instances’ (RI) features to provide our customers with additional savings and purchase controls.

Healthcare organizations depend on data-driven decisions. To enable better decisions and better health outcomes, healthcare organizations are moving to the cloud. There, the latest advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and analytics can be more easily tested and implemented.

The beginning of a new year is always a time to reflect on our plans. At Microsoft, with the end of support for 2008 servers looming, we’ve been thinking about how we can help you with your server refresh journey.