Here’s one big advantage to moving to Microsoft Azure SQL Database—you never have to patch. That’s right. The various SKUs available in Azure’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering are automatically ...

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eWeek has an article up discussing the possibility of Microsoft including automatic patching in the next version of SQL Server. The article is unclear about what exactly this would entail, but it ...

Automatic tuning will be turned on by default for the SQL Database service running in the Microsoft Azure cloud, starting early next year. Though it's been available since early last year, automatic ...

Update: Microsoft released SQL Server 2019 CU8 with a fix for the reliability issue that impacted SQL Server 2019 CU7. Microsoft pulled the Cumulative Update package 7 (CU7) for SQL Server 2019 ...