The Premium service "will help deliver greater performance for cloud applications by reserving a fixed amount of capacity for a database including its built-in secondary replicas," Microsoft said. An ...

The new service helps businesses streamline the management of their SQL Server database backups on Azure.

Microsoft recently published a new version of its service-level agreement (SLA) for Azure SQL Database, adding uptime perks for organizations that use the 'Business Critical' tier.

Teaming up with Amazon IBM and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are collaborating on a managed database service that allows IBM Db2 customers to move to a fully managed cloud database service.

Microsoft made a raft of cloud-related announcements at its TechEd conference last week. But one of them got relatively little notice: Changes to the company's SQL Azure cloud database pricing.

The Premium service "will help deliver greater performance for cloud applications by reserving a fixed amount of capacity for a database including its built-in secondary replicas," Microsoft said. An ...