Azure SQL Database: Continuous innovation and limitless scale at an unbeatable price
Monday, October 14, 2019
More companies are choosing Azure for their SQL workloads, and it is easy to see why.
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Understanding and leveraging Azure SQL Database’s SLA
Wednesday, July 31, 2019
When data is the lifeblood of your business, you want to ensure your databases are reliable, secure, and available when called upon to perform.
Optimize price-performance with compute auto-scaling in Azure SQL Database serverless
Friday, May 17, 2019
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.
Azure SQL Database Edge: Enabling intelligent data at the edge
Monday, May 13, 2019
The world of data changes at a rapid pace, with more and more data being projected to be stored and processed at the edge.
Resource governance in Azure SQL Database
Thursday, March 28, 2019
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.
Transforming your data in Azure SQL Database to columnstore format
Thursday, December 20, 2018
We are excited to reveal a public preview of a new feature in Azure SQL Database, both in logical server and Managed Instance, called CLUSTERED COLUMNSTORE ONLINE INDEX build. This operation enables you to migrate your data stored in row-store format to the columnstore format and maintain your columnstore data structures with the minimal downtime on your workload.
Static Data Masking for Azure SQL Database and SQL Server
Thursday, November 8, 2018
The SQL Security team is pleased to share the public preview release of Static Data Masking. Static Data Masking is a data protection feature that helps users sanitize sensitive data in a copy of their SQL databases.
Manage your SQL Information Protection policy in Azure Security Center
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
SQL Information Protection policy can now be managed in Azure Security Center. The policy management enables centrally defining customized classification and labeling policies, that will be applied across all databases on your tenant.
Announcing Azure SQL Database Hyperscale public preview
Monday, September 24, 2018
Today we pre-announced the public preview of Azure SQL Database Hyperscale. Azure SQL Database Hyperscale is a new SQL-based and highly scalable service tier for single databases that adapt on-demand to your workload's needs.
AI helps troubleshoot an intermittent SQL Database performance issue in one day
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
In this blogpost, you will learn how Azure SQL Database intelligent performance feature Intelligent Insights has successfully helped a customer troubleshoot a hard to find 6-month intermittent database performance issue in a single day only.