Microsoft is extending Dataverse into coding-agent marketplaces while expanding its MCP tools, certification program and governance controls.

On the first day of Microsoft Build 2026 in San Francisco, Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure HorizonDB, a fully managed PostgreSQL-compatible database rebuilt from the ground up for ...

Both Azure Savings Plans and Reserved Instances reduce your Azure compute bill by committing to a term. Both require 1-year or 3-year commitments. Both apply discounts automatically without changing ...

Microsoft’s Azure-based AI development and deployment platform shines with a strong selection of models and agent types and an excellent playground for experimenting with agents. At first glance, ...

Microsoft offers two paths for running enterprise databases: SQL Server, which you install and manage yourself, and Azure SQL, which Microsoft runs for you as a managed service. Both use the same ...

Database Level TDE CMK is available for Azure SQL Database (all SQL Database editions). It isn't available for Azure SQL Managed Instance, SQL Server on-premises, Azure VMs, and Azure Synapse ...

Microsoft has announced a distributed PostgreSQL database service designed to rival other hyperscaler systems and third-party RDBMSes such as CockroachDB and YugabyteDB. Claiming 100 percent ...

For Intel SGX to be available, the database must use the vCore model and DC-series hardware. Configuring the DC-series hardware to enable Intel SGX enclaves is the responsibility of the Azure SQL ...

Lead data engineer Jake Roussis told a Databricks data intelligence day in Melbourne that the changes had driven a “40-to-50 percent reduction in production platform expenditure over the last 12 ...

Today at Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft introduced SQL database in Fabric. This relational database service runs in the context of a Fabric capacity. SQL database in Fabric is built on the Azure SQL ...