A 34-vote social media poll showed 44.1 percent support for adding more database tooling options to Visual Studio, with 41.2 percent opposed and 14.7 percent choosing "Either way." Several responses ...

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.

Microsoft Azure operates two UK regions—UK South (located in London) and UK West (located in Cardiff and Durham)—providing UK enterprises with data residency options that align with ICO guidance and ...

Microsoft unveiled Azure HorizonDB at the Ignite conference, a new fully managed, scalable, and high-throughput PostgreSQL cloud database in private preview. At the Ignite conference, Microsoft today ...

This PowerShell script example restores a database in SQL Database to a specific point in time. [!INCLUDE [quickstarts-free-trial-note](../../includes/quickstarts ...

Are you worried about missing out on running workloads on older versions of MySQL after the community ends official support? Well, there’s finally some good news for you. Microsoft today announced a ...

Azure Data Studio will officially be retired on February 28, 2026. Microsoft just announced the retirement in a blog post, recommending that all users try out the alternatives: Visual Studio Code and ...

Microsoft unveiled .NET Aspire at the Build 2024 developer conference, describing it as an opinionated, cloud-ready stack for building observable, production ready, distributed, cloud-native ...

The toolkit for building generative AI applications has been packaged with new updates to form the Azure AI Foundry service. Microsoft is packaging its Azure AI Studio and other updates into a new ...

Data Access Migration Toolkit (DAMT) is a VS Code extension that help users identify SQL code in application source code when migrating from one DB to another and identify SQL compatibility issues.