Abstract: Azure SQL DB offers disaggregated storage architecture called Hyperscale. While this architecture provides storage scale out, it comes at the cost of performance of I/O from remote storage.

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 ...

Microsoft used its annual conference to roll out sweeping updates across Managed Instance, Cosmos DB, Fabric, PostgreSQL and SQL Server tooling, signaling broad investments in performance, scalability ...

Microsoft Azure experienced a global outage on October 29. Microsoft customer-facing services were affected. Recovery came later that same day, but some problems linger. Last week, Amazon Web Services ...

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.

Microsoft is suffering an ongoing DNS outage affecting customers worldwide, preventing them from logging into company networks and accessing Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 services. Some of those ...

The Privacy & Security Terms were formerly contained in Attachment 1 to the Online Services Terms. The Privacy and Security Terms in the table below modify or ...

Shenzhen, September 16, 2025 — The 2025 Billie Jean King Cup (BJK Cup) Finals officially kicked off today at the Shenzhen Bay Sports Center, marking the tournament’s debut in China. As the world’s ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. These practice questions help address commonly misunderstood AZ-204 concepts. If you can answer ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Fill in the blank for the Contoso cloud scenario. A(n) [?] helps organizations get the most ...

Microsoft is making it easier to migrate to Azure SQL by taking the grunt work out of schema setup. A new update to Azure Database Migration Service (DMS) introduces a built-in schema migration tool ...