This article provides an overview of the failover group feature with best practices and recommendations to use with Azure SQL Managed Instance. The failover groups feature allows you to manage the ...

Administer an SQL Server database infrastructure for cloud, on-premises and hybrid relational databases using the Microsoft PaaS relational database offerings. As a candidate for this certification, ...

Azure Data Studio is retired as of February 28, 2026 and no longer receives updates or security fixes. Migrate to Visual Studio Code with the MSSQL extension for continued support. Your existing ...

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.

We’re halfway through 2026, and Microsoft SQL has not slowed down. Since SQLCon/FabCon in March (where we released a ton of things, and those updates can be found in this updates video), we shipped a ...

One of the Azure SQL-related announcements that did not get a lot of publicity at May's Microsoft Build conference was the Azure SQL Database local database experience. With all the hype around SQL ...

Microsoft can point to gains in the database market of late, but the vendor's not counting on existing momentum. On Wednesday the company unveiled a series of upgrades that will bring its cloud-based ...

Maybe you are still getting up-to-speed with the whole concept of cloud computing. If so, I have a lot of sympathy for you because there is so much to learn and because cloud technologies advance so ...

Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server offers granular database control and flexibility. Explore its features, pricing and more in our review. Pricing: Pay as you go model. Key features ...

Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB is a scale-out, operational database fabric that suits read-heavy apps, workloads that need to scale geographically and use cases where the application requires multiple data ...