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 ...

There are lots of ways to create MSSQL databases via PowerShell. We could invoke a T-SQL query using the CREATE DATABASE term, we could write some code to use the [Create() method with SMO] or, if ...

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 Azure SQL Database is an excellent Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) solution for developers, business analysts, and database administrators given its ease of use and exemplary controls.

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Microsoft this week announced various Azure SQL Database improvements, including migration, high-availability and information protection options, plus some open source workload additions. Most ...