Azure SQL Managed Instance General Purpose is "a tier of Microsoft's relational database service, based on SQL Server, that operates like an on-premises SQL Server instance," Snodgrass explained ...

Azure SQL Database Managed Instance Preview The preview of Azure SQL Database Managed Instance is currently available in 20 Azure regions, although it's a limited offering.

On that front, Microsoft previewed Azure SQL Database Managed Instance, which is an option for moving local SQL Server workloads to the Azure SQL Database service, which is hosted and managed by ...

When moving from on-premises SQL Server to fully managed database services like Azure SQL Managed Instance, organizations can take a significant step in their digital transformation journey ...

The ability to run Azure SQL Managed Instance -- a cloud version of SQL Server -- on non-Azure clouds, and even on-premises, will be generally available and production-ready on July 30th, 2021.

The service is currently in preview for SQL Databases from version 2012 and up, SQL Managed Instance, and SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines.

Microsoft’s Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra is perhaps best thought of as a way of extending on-premises data into Cosmos DB. There’s been demand for on-premises Cosmos DB since ...

The only way to get extended support for 2008 versions of Windows and SQL Server is in the cloud. Here's why you should be thinking about 2012 migrations now as well.