The cloud has become an important option for businesses of all sizes today. Even server applications like SQL Server, that many organizations once considered on-premises only, have gradually been ...

SQL Server on Azure Local is generally available. Review disconnected deployment requirements, separate licensing, and ...

This book aims to explain the various versions of SQL Server in Azure, how does it fare? Businesses are increasingly moving applications to cloud infrastructure, owing to its many advantages (e.g.

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. Microsoft ...

Microsoft's continued focus on SQL Server 2025 highlights the lasting demand for on-premises and hybrid deployments that prioritize performance, control and flexibility for enterprise workloads. In ...

More and more organizations are moving SharePoint and SQL workloads into Microsoft Azure in the cloud because of the simplicity of spinning up servers in the cloud, adding more capacity, decreasing ...

Ensuring your applications are available can be critical in the modern world. This chapter looks at various High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) features provided by Azure SQL. Firstly, ...

Moving to the Microsoft Azure public cloud, admins and developers can select from an array of instance types. A series of services -- storage, scaling, caching, databases and more -- support and ...