But one of the SQL Server images on Azure is a sort of "max performance" image, where the maximum number of disks are loaded up to a VM, one is used for the OS, a bunch are used for the data drive ...

Azure SQL will also provide access to auto-patching, auto-backup and new license management options, providing Platform as a Service (PaaS)-like benefits to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) SQL ...

Microsoft launched Windows Azure infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) options on April 16. The service is now commercially available. The move adds to Microsoft's Windows Azure platform-as-a-service ...

I was installing SharePoint on another IaaS server with it using an A4 server for SQL database, we were getting locking and timeout errors because the A4 SQL couldn't keep up with the SharePoint ...

Speaking of migrations, make sure you check out the Database Migration Service (DMS), which will help you move on-premises databases to Azure SQL Database, Managed Instances, MySQL or PostgresSQL in ...

Using a connection to Azure Arc, which is part of the SQL Server 2022 setup process, on-premises users can now also opt for cloud-enabled billing to manage consumption spikes or for ad hoc use cases.

SQL Server’s data resiliency story gets a boost thanks to the new “link feature” in Azure SQL Managed Instance. According to Kumar’s post, the link feature includes a built-in Distributed Availability ...