SQL Server

September 12, 2014

“These images are pre-configured with optimizations for transactional and Data Warehousing workloads respectively by baking in our performance best practices for running SQL in Azure VMs,” the team writes in a blog post.

August 26, 2014

In September, new service tiers with reduced prices will debut for Azure SQL Database, the database-as-a-service that gives customers greater price performance and business continuity for cloud apps.

July 24, 2014

Thinking about backing up your SQL Server database to the cloud? There are compelling reasons to do, writes the SQL Server Team in a blog post. “Not only will you have an offsite copy of your data for business continuity and disaster recovery purposes,” but you can also save on capital expenditures by using Microsoft Azure for cost-effective storage.

June 19, 2014

The support of SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups on Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Services arrived in 2013, and now AlwaysOn Availability Groups are supported between Microsoft Azure Regions.