Microsoft announced a smorgasbord of updates to its Azure cloud platform today, primarily aimed at helping companies migrate database workloads to its datacenters. These workloads are typically mission critical, and Microsoft’s service updates are aimed ...

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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 Server 2022, I wanted to make sure this feature wasn't ...

"It's really about choice," Rohan Kumar, Microsoft's General Manager, Database Systems, told me yesterday as he briefed me on the new offerings. Kumar further explained: "if you're a developer, you sort of come and we meet you where you are." Indeed, open ...

Azure DevOps Server is the replacement for Team Foundation Server, rebranding the on-premises tool and adding on-premises versions of many of the features in the cloud-hosted Azure DevOps Services. If you’re running TFS 2015 or later, you can upgrade, which may be a good option as TFS 2015 is no longer supported and will not get security updates.

While Microsoft’s big Azure database news today is the launch of Cosmos DB, its new “planet-scale” distributed database service, there is a good chance that many developers will actually be more interested in a slightly smaller update to Azure’s ...