Microsoft announced a smorgasbord of updates to its Azure cloud platform today, primarily aimed at helping companies migrate database workloads to its datacenters. These workloads are typically ...

While Microsoft’s big Azure database news today is the launch of Cosmos DB, its new “planet-scale” distributed database service, there is a good chance that many developers will actually be more ...

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Could help break silos, but users should take wait-and-see approach to system limited to Microsoft DBs and DBaaS ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Madelyn Olson discusses the evolution of ...

Recent SQL Server 2025, Azure SQL, SSMS 22 and Fabric announcements highlight new event streaming and vector search capabilities, plus expanding monitoring and ontology tooling -- with tradeoffs in ...

There's also a nifty new browser-based admin shell. I am very glad to see MS taking NoSQL seriously. None of the other players I've piddled around with seemed to be serious enough for me to consider ...