While Microsoft’s big Azure database news today is the launch of Cosmos DB, its new “planet-scale” distributed database service, there is a good chance that many developers will actually be more ...

Microsoft’s new Azure database savings plans promise more flexible, cross-service cost reductions than traditional reservations, giving IT teams another lever to manage rising cloud database spend ...

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Could help break silos, but users should take wait-and-see approach to system limited to Microsoft DBs and DBaaS ...

Recently, I was approached by a small but growing technology company with an urgent problem: Microsoft’s announcement regarding the retirement of Azure Database for MariaDB had caught them completely ...

Arguably the biggest Azure news to come out of Microsoft's Build 2017 developer conference is the debut of Azure Cosmos DB. The schema-free database service offers developers flexibility with five ...

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 ...

Microsoft today announced that it is joining the MariaDB Foundation, the nonprofit behind the popular relational database founded by the original developers of MySQL. As a platinum sponsor, the ...