The Premium service "will help deliver greater performance for cloud applications by reserving a fixed amount of capacity for a database including its built-in secondary replicas," Microsoft said. An ...

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The new service helps businesses streamline the management of their SQL Server database backups on Azure.

Microsoft recently published a new version of its service-level agreement (SLA) for Azure SQL Database, adding uptime perks for organizations that use the 'Business Critical' tier.

Microsoft made a raft of cloud-related announcements at its TechEd conference last week. But one of them got relatively little notice: Changes to the company's SQL Azure cloud database pricing.