Plus, Azure Copilot integration adds Azure SQL Database skills into Microsoft Copilot for Azure, providing self-guided assistance that enables users to manage databases and solve issues independently.

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.

SQL Server 2025 also comes with improved AI model management through model definitions built into T-SQL to AI services, including Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, OpenAI, Ollama, and more.

Microsoft has opened up to testers the limited preview of the premium tier of its Windows Azure SQL database for business-critical applications. Written by Mary Jo Foley, Senior Contributing ...

Many of the new features in SQL Server 2016 like Always Encrypted and Stretch Database are already available in Microsoft’s Azure SQL Database managed service, but the virtual machine will be ...

Recently Microsoft announced Azure Monitor SQL Insights for Azure SQL in public preview. With the preview, customers will get a flexible canvas for telemetry collection, analysis, and rich custom visu ...

Microsoft added the ability to set recurring automated SQL Database exports to a storage account with this release of Windows Azure. Users can set an export rule on any SQL Database to create a ...

SQL Server and more recently, Azure SQL Database, have well-established roots. Scott Guthrie, executive vice president at Microsoft, explains why it was important to invest in an edge data store: ...

Azure SQL Data Warehouse is Microsoft's enterprise-focused storage solution that scales both computing power and storage space based on need when processing large amounts of data, allowing users ...