Alternately, the scaling operation might be inward or outward across compute notes. Scaling takes as much as 2 minutes. Hyperscale is available for an individual database using the vCore-based ...

And for Azure SQL Database customers that need to scale compute and memory as needed, Microsoft rolled out a new serverless pricing option that lets developers pay by the second for their usage ...

Then enterprises must dedicate Azure VM attached disks for database data, according to McDermid. Management tools, such as Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer, AzCopy, PowerShell, and SQL Management ...

Get ready to scale out SQL Azure databases beyond today's 50GB limit with the Transact-SQL and ADO.NET elastic sharding features, which are coming in the 2011 SQL Azure Federation Community Technology ...

Microsoft is also planning to launch a new “portal experience” called “Azure SQL” that will enable customers to manage both the Azure SQL Database and SQL Server on Azure VM ...

Microsoft this week announced various Azure SQL Database improvements, including migration, high-availability and information protection options.

Storage and performance can be quite different in the cloud. It's important to choose the right VM size and configure your storage properly to keep SQL Server workloads running smoothly.