Learn how to use the Azure Portal to create a cloud-based SQL database with just a few mouse clicks.

When you need a SQL database fast, the cloud is the best way to go. Azure provides a SQL database as a PaaS that eliminates the need to get an entire SQL Server deployment up and running.

Congrats! You're now the owner of a shiny, new Azure SQL Database and, more importantly, the owner of an ARM template that allows you to create an additional database on a whim.

Joey on SQL Server How To Automate Tasks in Azure SQL Database Knowing how to automate tasks in the cloud will make you a more productive DBA.

By using a single tool like PowerShell, you can access your data wherever it is stored. It does not matter if it is in the cloud in an Azure SQL database or in an on-premises MS-SQL server, MySQL or ...

Azure Data Studio Notebooks also received updates, including: The ability to create or open Notebooks using an integrated Notebook viewer, which in the new release supports connecting to local kernels ...

Azure SQL Database has a new feature in preview called "Managed Instances" that offers greater compatibility between on-premises SQL Server and the cloud variant, again to make workload migration ...

Microsoft tells customers that an automatic database tuning features will be switched on by default in its Azure SQL cloud database early in 2018.