Microsoft Corp. today announced new cloud-hosted versions of its SQL Server database service as two older on-premises varieties finally will see the end of extended support Tuesday. Having transformed ...

Database backups and restores are key to developing a secure environment for users’ information. A trusted backup plan is a requirement for on-premise and cloud instances. SQL Server database backups ...

Azure database savings plans cut cloud costs across SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL and Cosmos DB. Unlike reservations, Azure savings plans offer cross-region, cross-service flexibility with simpler pricing.

One way that organizations are storing data in the cloud is by moving their databases to the cloud. What once meant building an entire physical server, patching it, installing software like Microsoft ...

Mike Chapple is associate teaching professor of IT, analytics and operations at the University of Notre Dame. Almost every agency business function relies on at least one database. These range from ...

In this white paper, we investigate the SQL Server database backup options in Azure Virtual Machine. We start by explaining the uses and importance of backing up databases. We continue by discussing ...

When you need a SQL database fast, the cloud is the best way to go. Azure provides a SQL database as a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that eliminates the need to get an entire SQL Server up and running.