Learn how to use the Azure Portal to create a cloud-based SQL database with just a few mouse clicks.

Microsoft has added a new free tier for Azure Cosmos DB, its multi-model, globally distributed cloud database. Here's how it works.

By using a single tool like PowerShell, you can access your data wherever it is stored. It does not matter if it is in the cloud in an Azure SQL database or in an on-premises MS-SQL server, MySQL or ...

The new service will let you split workloads across Oracle and Azure while essentially operating as if it's on one cloud.

With these elastic database pools, customers pay for the aggregate of all the databases instead of for each one separately.

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