Database backups and restores are key to developing a secure environment for users’ information. A trusted backup plan is a requirement for on-premise and cloud instances. SQL Server database backups ...

Microsoft today released the 2022 version of its SQL Server database, which features a number of built-in connections to its Azure cloud.

Various Microsoft Azure services hit 'general availability' status this month, meaning that Microsoft views them as ready for production use.

Using StretchDB, an enterprise can 'stretch' an on-premises database into the cloud, such that 'hot,' heavily used data is stored in the on-premises instance of SQL Server, while 'cold' and ...

While SQL Server 2014 CTP2 has built-in Windows Azure backup support, Microsoft plans to extend that capability to other "supported" SQL Server versions with the new SQL Server Backup for Windows ...

SQL Server 2014 hit its 'release-to-manufacturing' milestone today, and will go live April 1. Microsoft also launched Windows Azure HD Insight -- the company's 'big data' Hadoop solution.