Microsoft's portfolio of PaaS databases has grown way beyond Azure SQL. Here are its most important cloud-based database services, and exactly how each one works differently from the other. As you ...

At its Ignite conference today, Microsoft announced a number of new features for its Azure data platform. These range from a first preview of the 2022 edition of its venerable SQL Server line to ...

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As organizations accelerate their artificial intelligence initiatives, many are discovering a hard truth: success with AI is less about models and more about the data foundation behind them. For ...

Microsoft has introduced detailed architecture patterns for Real-Time Intelligence in its Fabric platform, aiming to unify streaming and historical analytics for industries from IoT to finance. The ...

Microsoft Fabric is transforming how enterprises handle data by unifying ingestion, transformation, warehousing, visualization, and even observability into one platform. Migrating from Azure Data ...

From immutable ledgers in SQL Azure to in-memory cache in Cosmos DB, Microsoft is adding more features to its Azure data platform. If you’re building cloud-native applications you need a reliable, ...