The cloud has become an important option for businesses of all sizes today. Even server applications like SQL Server, that many organizations once considered on-premises only, have gradually been ...

Microsoft offers two paths for running enterprise databases: SQL Server, which you install and manage yourself, and Azure SQL, which Microsoft runs for you as a managed service. Both use the same ...

Microsoft makes SQL Server migration to Azure Virtual Machines generally available through Azure Migrate and Azure Arc. Unified Azure portal experience streamlines SQL Server assessment, migration, ...

Microsoft has withdrawn the free ESU deal on Azure for SQL Server 2016, turning deferral into a priced, back-billed decision for South African estates.

One way that organizations are storing data in the cloud is by moving their databases to the cloud. What once meant building an entire physical server, patching it, installing software like Microsoft ...

Moving to the Microsoft Azure public cloud, admins and developers can select from an array of instance types. A series of services -- storage, scaling, caching, databases and more -- support and ...

For three end-of-support cycles, Microsoft made waiting free. This time it did not – and that, not the deadline, is the story ...