Then enterprises must dedicate Azure VM attached disks for database data, according to McDermid. Management tools, such as Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer, AzCopy, PowerShell, and SQL Management ...

And for Azure SQL Database customers that need to scale compute and memory as needed, Microsoft rolled out a new serverless pricing option that lets developers pay by the second for their usage ...

Microsoft is also planning to launch a new “portal experience” called “Azure SQL” that will enable customers to manage both the Azure SQL Database and SQL Server on Azure VM ...

Get ready to scale out SQL Azure databases beyond today's 50GB limit with the Transact-SQL and ADO.NET elastic sharding features, which are coming in the 2011 SQL Azure Federation Community Technology ...

Since we know we're a database heavy application, we make sure the database has resources to spare. In Azure, the VM size is large. We attach a disk for SQL Data, SQL Log, and SQL Archive.

Microsoft this week announced various Azure SQL Database improvements, including migration, high-availability and information protection options.

Storage and performance can be quite different in the cloud. It's important to choose the right VM size and configure your storage properly to keep SQL Server workloads running smoothly.