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 ...

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Microsoft has entered the final phase of retiring Azure SQL Data Sync, blocking new deployments in subscriptions that have never used the service. The restriction took effect on September 9, ahead of ...

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On August 30, Microsoft announced the public preview of the Azure Database Migration Service (DMS) to support online migrations of various databases to Azure. What’s an “online migration”? Online ...

Microsoft has begun the final phase of phasing out Azure SQL Data Sync. As of September 9, new deployments are no longer ...

“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 ...

Microsoft this week announced the commercial availability of Azure Database services for both MySQL and PostgreSQL. The two open source database management systems reached "general availability" ...