Microsoft is allowing testers to register, as of December 7, for a public Community Technology Preview (CTP) test build of the reporting services technology for its SQL Azure cloud database.

Also read: At Ignite, Microsoft enhances its cloud database, warehouse and lake services While the previous release (SQL Server 2019) focused on core features like Azure Data Studio, Big Data ...

SQL on Azure’s service-level agreements (SLA) have been upgraded as well, added Guthrie. “We are extending the availability SLA of all of the new SQL Database tiers to be 99.95%,” he stated.

Based on technologies that power Microsoft’s core cloud infrastructure along with other services including Azure SQL Database and Dynamics 365, Azure Service Fabric allows users to deploy and ...

Nowadays, Wilson says, Paychex is relying on the Microsoft Azure SQL Database cloud service to handle its data. "We've had a great experience with Microsoft," Wilson told Business Insider.

Azure Analysis Services will help companies with data analysis in the cloud SQL Server Analysis Services, one of the key features of Microsoft’s relational database enterprise offering, is going ...

While Microsoft pursues newer platforms like its Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL platform and supports open-source databases like PostgreSQL, it never seems to lose faith, or abandon investment, in SQL Server.

Azure SQL’s hyperscale tier is a new option for one of the oldest Azure platform services. Designed for databases with up to 100TB of storage, it adds Azure Blob-based snapshots for rapid ...

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.

By using a single tool like PowerShell, you can access your data wherever it is stored. It does not matter if it is in the cloud in an Azure SQL database or in an on-premises MS-SQL server, MySQL or ...