Azure SQL vs SQL Server: Which One Should You Choose for Your Next Project?

Azure SQL vs SQL Server in 2026: compare cost, features, AI, and migration paths, plus when Managed Instance beats Azure VM in one clear framework.
CIO

Make your Azure data platform AI-ready

As organizations accelerate their artificial intelligence initiatives, many are discovering a hard truth: success with AI is less about models and more about the data foundation behind them. For ...
InfoWorld

The revenge of SQL: How a 50-year-old language reinvents itself

Prototyping is my favorite part of programming. I like building new stuff and getting things working. It’s no surprise, then, that I am a big fan of MongoDB and NoSQL in general. Don’t get me wrong: I ...
Network World

Azure outage disrupts VMs and identity services for over 10 hours

Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform suffered a broad multi-hour outage beginning on Monday evening, disrupting two critical layers of enterprise cloud operations. The outage, which lasted over 10 hours, ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft: Recent Windows updates break RemoteApp connections

Microsoft has confirmed that recent Windows updates trigger RemoteApp connection failures on Windows 11 24H2/25H2 and Windows Server 2025 devices in Azure Virtual Desktop environments. RemoteApp ...
GitHub

data-connections-data-sources-connection-strings-report-builder.md

Connection strings are the text representation of connection properties for a data provider. The following table lists some examples of connections strings for various data connection types. Data ...
The Motley Fool

Anthropic Will Spend $30 Billion on Azure. Could This Be Microsoft's Most Important AI Deal Yet?

Anthropic will purchase $30 billion worth of cloud computing capacity from Microsoft. As part of this deal, Microsoft's Azure will support both Claude AI and ChatGPT. OpenAI is under contract to buy ...
TheServerSide

Azure Data Fundamentals Questions and Answers

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. In helping students prepare for this exam, I have identified a number of commonly misunderstood ...
Reuters

Microsoft Azure's services restored after global outage

Azure outage affected global industries, including airlines and airports Microsoft 365 services impacted by Azure configuration change Outage follows recent Amazon AWS disruption, highlighting tech ...
Engadget

Azure is in recovery following an outage that affected Microsoft 365, Xbox and Minecraft

Microsoft's Azure cloud service is recovering from an outage that affected key apps and services like Microsoft 365, Xbox and Minecraft. All three showed spikes in outage reports on DownDetector ...
CNBC

Azure outage: Microsoft still working on fix, says recovery expected in several hours

Microsoft was hit with an outage affecting its Azure and 365 services hours before the company was scheduled to report quarterly results. "We are investigating an issue with the Azure Portal where ...