As SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 reach the end of support in 2019, you’ll have an opportunity to upgrade to a cloud database service. Follow this step-by-step guide to manage change effectively as ...

Despite more than a decade of cloud migration, there’s still a vast amount of data running on-premises. That’s not surprising since data migrations, even between similar systems, are complex, slow, ...

Today, businesses across every industry must make significant changes to compete in a rapidly modernizing world. In fact, according to Gartner 1, 91% of businesses are engaged in some form of digital ...

If you’ve used Azure in the past, you probably know that there are two main ways to deploy SQL Server on Microsoft’s cloud—Azure SQL Database, the PaaS offering; and Azure VMs running SQL Server.

In concert with Arc-enabled Azure SQL's GA, Microsoft is announcing it is working with a broad network of managed service providers (MSPs) and solution integrators (SIs) to help customers deploy and ...

That connectivity is the driving force behind a host of new SQL Server capabilities in the 2022 release, including enhancements related to Azure Synapse Link, Microsoft Purview, and the new “link ...

SQL Managed Instance's general purpose is a tier of Microsoft's relational database service, based on SQL Server, that operates like an on-premises SQL Server instance.