Abstract: Azure SQL DB offers disaggregated storage architecture called Hyperscale. While this architecture provides storage scale out, it comes at the cost of performance of I/O from remote storage.

I am a Backend Developer and Software Engineer with a solid background in Artificial Intelligence in academic and professional fields, looking forwa ...

An AI image generator startup’s database was left accessible to the open internet, revealing more than 1 million images and videos, including photos of real people who had been “nudified.” An AI image ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs is creating an urgent and extensive internal database of non-U.S. citizens employed by the department, according to documents leaked to The Guardian. The publication ...

Third time’s the charm? Microsoft hopes the scalability of Azure HorizonDB, will lure new customers where its two existing PostgreSQL databases did not. Microsoft is previewing a third ...

At today’s Ignite 2025 event, Microsoft announced one of the biggest Azure data updates in years. The company has announced the general availability of SQL Server 2025. That has come after a long ...

A couple of months ago, I wrote an article on how to use PowerShell to back up a database within SQL Server Express Edition. Even though the technique that I described in that post works, the script ...

Document databases are an increasingly important type of technology in the gen AI era. A document database is a type of NoSQL database that doesn't rely on rows and columns like a traditional ...

We’re excited to announce a new migration capability in Azure Arc to simplify and accelerate SQL Server migration. This new capability, now generally available, is powered by Azure Database Migration ...

Microsoft has rolled out a redesigned continuous migration assessment tool for SQL Server enabled by Azure Arc. The new experience is now generally available and brings a more streamlined, ...

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