Microsoft broke new ground in scalability when it launched Azure SQL Database Hyperscale. Here's what it took to make Microsoft's hyperscale vision work with the existing Azure infrastructure. When ...

I was recently chatting with a good friend of mine who’s very highly placed in the Microsoft SQL Server team. Our conversation was wide ranging and covered a lot of topics, such as internal features ...

Azure database savings plans cut cloud costs across SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL and Cosmos DB. Unlike reservations, Azure savings plans offer cross-region, cross-service flexibility with simpler pricing.

This book is designed to give you and end-to-end walkthrough of SQL Azure. If you follow the steps, you'll go from creating a simple SQL database on Azure, through to creating a multi-tier cloud ...

Vendors almost puff up as they make assertions about their wares, but the proof usually plays out a little further in the future. Claims from database giants Microsoft and Oracle for their respective ...

If you're considering moving your on-premises SQL Server databases to the Microsoft Azure cloud, you need to decide which of the different cloud options works best for you. You might not realize it to ...

Microsoft unveiled .NET Aspire at the Build 2024 developer conference, describing it as an opinionated, cloud-ready stack for building observable, production ready, distributed, cloud-native ...

Paychex currently handles time tracking and payroll services for millions of hourly workers across two continents. And as Paychex has been migrating their on-premises environment to the cloud and it ...

Microsoft touted the inclusion of Azure SQL Database among the top three databases of 2020 in a popularity ranking by DB-Engines, which collects and manages information about database management ...

You're currently following this author! Click to unsubscribe from email alerts. For the $30 billion payroll and human resources software company Paychex, the Microsoft Azure cloud was a "natural pick.

The expanded support provides visibility into query-level metrics and detailed explain plans so all Microsoft customers can benefit from Database Monitoring With this expanded support, engineers and ...