I was recently chatting with a good friend of mine who’s very highly placed in the Microsoft SQL Server team. Our conversation was wide ranging and covered a lot of topics, such as internal features ...

Azure database savings plans cut cloud costs across SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL and Cosmos DB. Unlike reservations, Azure savings plans offer cross-region, cross-service flexibility with simpler pricing.

Vendors almost puff up as they make assertions about their wares, but the proof usually plays out a little further in the future. Claims from database giants Microsoft and Oracle for their respective ...

Microsoft unveiled .NET Aspire at the Build 2024 developer conference, describing it as an opinionated, cloud-ready stack for building observable, production ready, distributed, cloud-native ...

Paychex currently handles time tracking and payroll services for millions of hourly workers across two continents. And as Paychex has been migrating their on-premises environment to the cloud and it ...

The expanded support provides visibility into query-level metrics and detailed explain plans so all Microsoft customers can benefit from Database Monitoring With this expanded support, engineers and ...

New York, NY, June 17, 2013 --(PR.com)-- Pranas.Net announced the release of a new SqlBackupAndFtp version that now supports Windows Azure SQL Database backup. SqlBackupAndFtp software creates backups ...

You're currently following this author! Click to unsubscribe from email alerts. For the $30 billion payroll and human resources software company Paychex, the Microsoft Azure cloud was a "natural pick.

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 announced the general availability of Azure SQL Data Sync. The service supports unidirectional or bidirectional synchronization of data between Azure SQL Database and SQL endpoints, ...