In the cloud era, you may wonder why Microsoft is investing big into an "on-premises" product like SQL Server. It is a complex question I wanted to answer through the lens of some of the new ...

If your organization is still running SQL Server on-premises, this IDC InfoBrief is a must-read! As with other technologies, SQL Server users are looking to migrate to the cloud to enjoy more agility ...

Recent research sponsored by Database as a Service (DBaaS) company Tesora shows SQL databases are holding their own in cloud usage. The start-up, which is developing a DBaaS product for the open ...

Microsoft Corp. today released SQL Server 2022, the latest release of its popular SQL Server relational database.SQL Server can run in the cloud and on on-premises infrastructure. The latest relea ...

The company plans to introduce SQL Server 2019 this week in Orlando, and it will also extend a key capability of its newest cloud database — Cosmos DB — to all Azure customers.

“SQL Availability Groups can now be added to ASR Recovery plans along with virtual machines,” blogged Prateek Sharma, a Microsoft Cloud and Enterprise senior program manager, on Oct. 13.

The most obvious competition for Cloud SQL is Amazon’s Aurora service. When reviewed by InfoWorld’s Martin Heller in October 2015, it supported a recent version of MySQL (5.6) and had many of ...

Google Cloud unlocks the original promise of SQL with new AI engine and AlloyDB updates. ... SQL, an acronym that stands for Structured Query Language, was first introduced in 1973.

The guidance provided then still works, but changes in the Google Cloud mean that organizations wanting a cloud-based infrastructure supporting SQL Server at 99.99 percent availability levels now ...

And, in particular, Microsoft wants to be a Linux cloud power. Today, Azure is certainly the primary way Microsoft monetizes Linux, so it's only logical that SQL Server would be added to Linux.

More than 750 million people worldwide use spreadsheets, and that's why Sigma Computing Inc. thinks the familiar row-and-column metaphor is a good way to work with data warehouses as well.The co ...