Azure SQL Database Elastic Jobs preview faces a refresh, introducing customer-requested features and additions including Microsoft Entra ID support, Service-managed Private Link for secure ...

In a busy week for Microsoft's cloud, the company officially launched its capacity-stretching Azure SQL Database elastic pool option.

If you are an old hand at Microsoft SQL Server, you have probably used the SQL Server Agent (i.e., SQL Agent) service and MSDB database for the last 20 years. With a humble and largely unchanged ...

As Microsoft today announced during its Build developer conference keynote in San Francisco, its new Azure SQL Database elastic databases (yep, that’s the complete name) allow developers to ...

Azure SQL Database, Microsoft’s flagship relational database product in the Azure Cloud, always has new features in the works. Here’s a feature now in public preview which I really like—online ...

MYOB explored options including migrating customers to Azure’s S3, or to the then still-emerging Elastic Pools solution. According to Ferguson; “It would have taken a lot more work for us to move to ...

Microsoft has added a new Azure SQL option called Elastic Pools which automatically scales cloud databases up or down as conditions dictate. Azure SQL Database elastic pools were first announced ...