Microsoft’s free cloud migration tools simplify the process of bringing applications and services out of your data center and into the cloud. Migrating from on-premises to the cloud is often fraught ...

Editor's note: An earlier version of this article, both in the July print issue and online, erroneously described how to connect an on-premise instance of Windows Server Active Directory to Windows ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More At the PASS Data Community Summit in Seattle today, Microsoft announced ...

The general availability of SQL Server 2017 for Windows and Linux is among the announcements made by Microsoft at its Ignite conference in Orlando. SQL Server 2017 is the first cross-platform release ...

If you are an old hand at Microsoft SQL Server, you have probably used the SQL Server Agent (i.e., SQL Agent) service and MSDB database for the last 20 years. With a humble and largely unchanged ...

Microsoft has announced support for MySQL and PostgreSQL as fully managed instances on the Azure cloud platform. Additionally, the company has also launched a new NoSQL database called Cosmos DB with ...

Microsoft announced this week that it plans to release a "General Purpose" version of its Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance (MI) at the "general availability" (GA) commercial-release stage, ...

Azure DevOps Server is now generally available, marking its transition to a production-ready on-premises offering for teams that need to self-host their DevOps platform. The GA release packages ...