Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Orion Systems has an Azure DevOps project named ProjectOmega and all engineers use Windows 11 ...

Creating a [single database](single-database-overview.md) is the quickest and simplest option for creating a database in Azure SQL Database. This quickstart shows you ...

As SQL Server 2016 approaches end of support in July 2026, a look back at its groundbreaking innovations reveals how it reshaped Microsoft's data platform and why it's time to move forward. As I've ...

Azure database savings plans cut cloud costs across SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL and Cosmos DB. Unlike reservations, Azure savings plans offer cross-region, cross-service flexibility with simpler pricing.

description Learn to design your first relational database in Azure SQL Database using the MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code. For the purpose of this tutorial, we are using Azure SQL Database.

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, ...

Enterprises need data, and data needs to be stored, with a flexible, portable environment that scales from developers’ laptops to global clouds. That storage also needs to be able to run on any OS and ...

At today’s Ignite 2025 event, Microsoft announced one of the biggest Azure data updates in years. The company has announced the general availability of SQL Server 2025. That has come after a long ...

It shouldn’t be a surprise that there’s a lot of Azure you can run on premises, thanks to platforms like Azure Stack. But there’s more to on-premises Azure than the familiar platforms and services.