Microsoft this week announced various Azure SQL Database improvements, including migration, high-availability and information protection options, plus some open source workload additions.

Azure SQL Options Microsoft last year explained Azure Arc deployment options for Azure SQL Server in this announcement, which included the following useful diagram: [Click on image for larger view.] ...

A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, ...

Microsoft once again made some cuts to its SQL Azure pricing, as well as introduced a 100 MB database storage option, according to a blog post by Steve Martin, general manager for Windows Azure ...

Here's how the new extended support option will work. Customers who agree to migrate their Windows Server 2008/R2 and/or SQL Server 2008/R2 workloads to Azure will get extended security updates ...

In this white paper, we investigate the SQL Server database backup options in Azure Virtual Machine. We start by explaining the uses and importance of backing up databases. We continue by discussing ...

Microsoft has added a new Azure SQL option called Elastic Pools which automatically scales cloud databases up or down as conditions dictate. Azure SQL Database elastic pools were first announced ...

The Azure Dedicated Host option is aimed at companies with compliance ... Hybrid benefit which use of existing Windows Server and SQL Server licenses on Azure Dedicated Hosts.

Now, Microsoft is launching a variant of these machines (GS) that adds premium storage as an option ... SQL Server, as well as noSQL databases like MongoDB. Sanders also notes that some of Azure ...

But as the range of options grows, many enterprises ... workloads such as SAP and Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server databases, NPS for Azure is well-suited to testing and development, NetApp said.