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) ...

SQL Server holds the top spot in the database arena, serving as the backbone for both large corporations and small businesses alike. Yet, as cloud technology increasingly defines the future of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Database administration includes responsibility for ensuring the ongoing operational functionality and efficiency of an organization’s databases and the applications that access those databases.

Mission-critical database applications are often the most complex use case in the public cloud for a variety of reasons. They need to keep running 24×7 under all possible failure scenarios. As a ...