Microsoft Corp. today announced a slew of new services and updates to its Azure public cloud platform designed to make it easier for users to migrate database workloads to its cloud data centers.

Migrate SQL Server Workloads Microsoft is making it seamless to move any SQL Server application to Azure without application changes with the new deployment option in Azure SQL Database, Managed ...

Microsoft’s offer: “Customers who migrate workloads to Azure virtual machines will have access to Extended Security Updates for both SQL Server and Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 for three ...

Microsoft is offering extended support for Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 to customers who shift these platforms from on-premises into Microsoft’s Azure cloud.

With end of support looming for Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008, Microsoft has a new option for those users to keep getting security updates: By moving workloads to Azure.

So while SQL Server 2022 enables migrating workloads to Azure SQL Managed Instance with virtually no downtime using distributed availability groups, users can also restore databases back to SQL ...