A metadata-driven ETL framework using Azure Data Factory boosts scalability, flexibility, and security in integrating diverse data sources with minimal rework. In today’s data-driven landscape, ...

A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, complete with a PowerShell script that handles the networking configuration.

As developers look to harness the power of AI in their applications, one of the most exciting advancements is the ability to enrich existing databases with semantic understanding through vector search ...

At Microsoft Build, SQL Server 2025 enters public preview with major enhancements in AI integration, performance, reliability and developer tools -- reaffirming Microsoft’s continued investment in its ...

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Abstract: SQL Azure's concurrency control relies on multi-versioning to prevent readers and writers from blocking each other and on in-memory row locks to prevent multiple writers modifying the same ...

Microsoft today announced the general availability of the open source Data API builder (DAB), which provides REST and GraphQL endpoints for Azure databases, some three years in the making. The ...

Create a SQL pool Data warehouses are created using dedicated SQL pool (formerly SQL DW) in Azure Synapse Analytics. A dedicated SQL pool (formerly SQL DW) is created with a defined set of compute ...

Dedicated SQL pool (formerly SQL DW) supports loading and exporting data through several tools including Azure Data Factory, PolyBase, and BCP. For small amounts of data where performance isn't ...

Now available in India: Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Database for PostgreSQL We recently announced public preview availability of Azure Database for PostgreSQL and MySQL in West and Central ...