Microsoft Corp. is creating technology to give businesses more fine-grained control over access to data stored in the company’s upcoming SQL Azure database-as-a-service, a senior engineer said Tuesday ...

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 ...

Microsoft has released a free trial of its cloud-based relational database. The community technology preview (CTP) of SQL Azure Database was made available Tuesday, along with a preview of an SQL ...

Microsoft Corp. today is introducing updates across its database portfolio as part of general availability announcements for Azure DocumentDB and SQL Server 2025.

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...

Microsoft on Tuesday released technology previews of SQL Azure, the database for its Azure cloud infrastructure platform, and SQL Server StreamInsight, its entry in the CEP (complex event processing) ...

Putting your databases in the public cloud might be scary, but the rewards are substantial. Here's how this fictional company does it. Just Another Big Business (JABB) Systems International is a ...

Microsoft's SQL Server database server platform and its cloud-based SQL Azure may share many core technologies but they are not one and the same. As a result, moving data and apps from one to the ...

Microsoft announced last week a new pricing scheme for its SQL Azure cloud database service. Previously, SQL Azure databases were limited to either 1GB (for "Web edition") or 10GB (for "business ...

SQL Azure adds a pair of secondary data replicas to assure high availability, and the team cited performance issues with replication as the early size-limiting factor. Today, you can rent a 50GB SQL ...