“Today, we’re making additional Azure PaaS services and DevOps ... Supporting the new capability are new SQL and MySQL database resource providers. Microsoft is courting cloud developers ...

“Only Microsoft, as of today, offers the broadest IaaS and PaaS from a single ... and others. The Azure Web Sites support both Windows Azure SQL Database and MySQL databases, plus an array ...

Microsoft this week rolled out additional features to its Azure Stack Technical Preview. The release comes just two weeks after the long-awaited debut of the Azure Stack preview, which promises a ...

Having covered Cloud Foundry, Force.com, Google App Engine and Red Hat OpenShift, we now take a look at Microsoft's PaaS offering ... single-point-of failure. SQL Azure is Microsoft SQL Server ...

Microsoft today released SQL Server 2022, the latest version of its database software, which originally launched more than 33 years ago. Microsoft describes this release as the “most Azure ...

PaaS players, in addition to Microsoft with Azure ... By the same token, SQL Azure is meant, by design, to provide developers with as much of SQL Server's functionality as it makes sense to ...

Microsoft has quietly been putting a lot of impressive features in Azure SQL Database, and I expected them to land in the next version of SQL Server. While PaaS services like Azure SQL DB and ...

In a recent benchmark, Microsoft claims that SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines can be up to 57% faster and cost up to 54% less than running a similar workload on AWS EC2. The study compares ...

Change Event Streaming will help developers consume transaction log changes as events directly from SQL Server to Microsoft Azure Event Hubs. Microsoft also announced the public preview of the new ...

Hackers have been observed trying to breach cloud environments through Microsoft SQL Servers ... actors to gain access to the SQL Server instance hosted on Azure Virtual Machine with elevated ...