Change Event Streaming (CES) in SQL Server 2025 and Azure SQL enables event-driven architectures by streaming JSON records from table activity to Azure Event Hub, with Entra support now available in ...

Microsoft has entered the final phase of retiring Azure SQL Data Sync, blocking new deployments in subscriptions that have ...

Microsoft has begun the final phase of phasing out Azure SQL Data Sync. As of September 9, new deployments are no longer ...

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 ...

Microsoft is blocking SQL Data Sync for new Azure subscriptions. Existing installations will continue until September 2027.

“It’s really about choice,” Rohan Kumar, Microsoft’s General Manager, Database Systems, told me yesterday as he briefed me on the new offerings. Kumar further explained: “if you’re a developer, you ...

SQL Server is primarily built around a row-based table structure that connects related data elements in different tables to one another, avoiding the need to redundantly store data in multiple places ...

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 ...