Microsoft used its annual conference to roll out sweeping updates across Managed Instance, Cosmos DB, Fabric, PostgreSQL and SQL Server tooling, signaling broad investments in performance, scalability ...

Microsoft's portfolio of PaaS databases has grown way beyond Azure SQL. Here are its most important cloud-based database services, and exactly how each one works differently from the other. As you ...

Security is a longstanding priority for Microsoft across its products and offerings. In fact, SQL Server has pro­duced the fewest security vulnerabilities of all the major database platforms for many ...

At this year’s Microsoft Ignite, a variety of executives -- from CEO Satya Nadella to EVP of Cloud & Enterprise Scott Guthrie -- made a host of announcements that are important and relevant to data ...

Scott Guthrie, Microsoft EVP of Cloud & Enterprise. Microsoft Azure customers interested in parsing large amounts of data to improve their businesses will soon be able to use Azure Databricks, ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. In this episode, Thomas Betts chats with ...

Okera, which offers a centralized security, governance and access solution for data lakes and data warehouses, has announced support for data lakes on the Microsoft Azure cloud. While Amazon Web ...

At its Build developer conference, Microsoft today announced what it calls its “Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform.” That’s not so much a new platform but an effort to bring the company’s existing ...

At Microsoft's Ignite digital event this week, the company is announcing the private preview of SQL Server 2022, the next version of its three-decades-old relational database management system (RDBMS) ...

Hyperscale cloud services such as Azure are designed to work with large amounts of data, taking advantage of their economies of scale when purchasing storage hardware. Their close relationship with ...

REDMOND, Wash., and BURLINGTON, Mass. — Nov, 1, 2017 — Attunity Ltd. (NASDAQ CM: ATTU) and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) announced an expanded strategic partnership for enabling data migration and ...