At Microsoft's Ignite digital event this week, the company is announcing the private preview of SQL Server 2022, the next version of its three-decades-old relational database management system (RDBMS) ...

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 ...

Coverage of Google’s sold-out annual cloud conference in San Francisco, as the search giant looks to extend its reach and build its momentum in the cloud. by Tom Krazit on Apr 10, 2019 at 9:00 am ...

Improving performance, increasing data security, ensuring high availability—each of these efforts are what today’s enterprises must accomplish to maintain a competitive edge. Powerful, secure ...

A new SQL Server 2025 feature lets organizations run vector-based semantic searches on their own data, connecting to local or cloud-hosted AI models without relying on massive general-purpose LLMs. I ...

Microsoft will retire SCOM SQL monitoring packs in 2027, pushing customers toward Azure Monitor and cloud billing.

The news comes one week after Oracle announced that customers would be able to run a number of its software products on Amazon EC2. Amazon is currently operating a private beta of EC2 running the ...

Transactional cloud databases come in all shapes and sizes, from simple key-value stores to planet-scale distributed relational databases. Here’s how to choose the right cloud database for your ...

I have a client that has a SQL Server database and some files that they'd like to have constantly backed up, I'm trying to find a cloud service for them but I'm having a hard time figuring out which ...