Microsoft’s new Azure database savings plans promise more flexible, cross-service cost reductions than traditional reservations, giving IT teams another lever to manage rising cloud database spend ...

Recent SQL Server 2025, Azure SQL, SSMS 22 and Fabric announcements highlight new event streaming and vector search capabilities, plus expanding monitoring and ontology tooling -- with tradeoffs in ...

This week, we are excited to kick off SQLCon 2026 alongside FabCon in Atlanta. Bringing these SQL and Fabric communities together creates a unique opportunity to learn, connect, and share what’s next ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. The Microsoft Security Response Center has confirmed that a SQL Server elevation of ...

According to Avery Ching, AI is driving significant advancements in trading by empowering Aptos and the Move programming language. The integration of an optimized trading virtual machine (VM) and ...

Microsoft has unveiled a new generation of Azure virtual machines (VMs) built on AMD’s 5th Gen EPYC processors, designed for cloud, AI, and high-performance computing. The newly introduced Da/Ea/Fasv7 ...

Today, we’re proud to introduce Maia 200, a breakthrough inference accelerator engineered to dramatically improve the economics of AI token generation. Maia 200 is an AI inference powerhouse: an ...

Microsoft is moving another core database management component into the cloud, continuing its broader shift away from traditional on-premises infrastructure. According to Neowin, the company has ...

Every data engineering team right now is being asked the same question: "How do we build a chatbot that talks to our data?" The prototypes are deceptively simple. A developer connects GPT-5.1 to a ...

Abstract: SQL Azure's concurrency control relies on multi-versioning to prevent readers and writers from blocking each other and on in-memory row locks to prevent multiple writers modifying the same ...