Developers and independent software vendors who often run hundreds — or even thousands — of separate databases for their customers now have a new option to manage them while keeping costs predictable.

If you are an old hand at Microsoft SQL Server, you have probably used the SQL Server Agent (i.e., SQL Agent) service and MSDB database for the last 20 years. With a humble and largely unchanged ...

Microsoft has added a new Azure SQL option called Elastic Pools which automatically scales cloud databases up or down as conditions dictate. Azure SQL Database elastic pools were first announced ...

Elastic Database Jobs is a service that supports any combination of database targets, including all the databases on a server, in an elastic pool, singleton databases, and across multiple servers, ...

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A new Azure SQL Data Warehouse preview offered as a counter to Amazon's Redshift headed several data-related announcements at the opening of the Microsoft Build conference today. Also being announced ...

Microsoft's portfolio of PaaS databases has grown way beyond Azure SQL. Here are its most important cloud-based database services, and exactly how each one works differently from the other. As you ...

Microsoft today announced version 9.0 of its R Server, a product designed for data scientists working with large sets of information. The new software was one of several announcements the company made ...

Amidst months of allegations from content creators in various niches, YouTube has finally admitted to using AI to enhance videos on its platform. Goldman Sachs says AI will boost productivity, cause a ...