Microsoft has announced a private preview of Copilot in Azure SQL Database, an AI assistant that improves productivity in the Azure portal by offering natural language to SQL conversion, along with ...

Microsoft’s January 2026 Azure Database for MySQL update delivers security patches and reliability fixes, with no new ...

Microsoft will retire SCOM SQL monitoring packs in 2027, pushing customers toward Azure Monitor and cloud billing.

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Azure SQL Database, Microsoft’s flagship relational database product in the Azure Cloud, always has new features in the works. Here’s a feature now in public preview which I really like—online ...

Introduced at Ignite late last year, Azure HorizonDB is a new PostgreSQL service designed for higher performance and scalability, using disaggregated storage, zone-redundant architecture and a ...

Other database updates include the availability of an Azure Database for PostgreSQL extension for Azure AI and the addition of Copilot capabilities to Azure SQL DB. Microsoft released multiple updates ...

About 5,500 of the SQL Server faithful came out for the PASS Summit 2018 in Seattle last November. As usual, the event had the feel of a great big family reunion. It’s always a fun time, with lots of ...

One of the Azure SQL-related announcements that did not get a lot of publicity at May's Microsoft Build conference was the Azure SQL Database local database experience. With all the hype around SQL ...