description Learn to design your first relational database in Azure SQL Database using the MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code. For the purpose of this tutorial, we are using Azure SQL Database.

Abstract: Azure SQL DB offers disaggregated storage architecture called Hyperscale. While this architecture provides storage scale out, it comes at the cost of performance of I/O from remote storage.

If you’re licensing your virtual SQL Servers by core, you may be missing out on a significant opportunity to reduce costs. By reviewing and potentially reducing the number of CPU cores allocated to ...

Are you having trouble with a Marketplace Free VM offer? There’s a known bug that sets the public IP to the correct Standard SKU but keeps the allocation as Dynamic, which is not correct. The best way ...

Amid the AI-heavy headlines at Microsoft's annual conference, several behind-the-scenes updates landed that could have a major impact on how IT teams build, run and scale core infrastructure in Azure.

Enterprises need data, and data needs to be stored, with a flexible, portable environment that scales from developers’ laptops to global clouds. That storage also needs to be able to run on any OS and ...

With the official release of Microsoft's latest database offering, let's see what was improved and what still needs some work. Today, at Ignite, Microsoft announced the general availability of SQL ...

At today’s Ignite 2025 event, Microsoft announced one of the biggest Azure data updates in years. The company has announced the general availability of SQL Server 2025. That has come after a long ...

It shouldn’t be a surprise that there’s a lot of Azure you can run on premises, thanks to platforms like Azure Stack. But there’s more to on-premises Azure than the familiar platforms and services.

Having slow database queries can be frustrating, even if your indexes are in good shape. To troubleshoot and improve performance, start by examining the actual query plan. Sometimes, SQL Server may ...

The recent “HITS in the cloud” webinar, hosted by Altron Digital Business and Microsoft South Africa, had a single message: SQL Server remains at the centre of enterprise operations. SQL is ubiquitous ...

This PowerShell script example restores a database in SQL Database to a specific point in time. [!INCLUDE [quickstarts-free-trial-note](../../includes/quickstarts ...