!!! info "Comparative positioning note" This document is written from the perspective of Microsoft Azure, Cloud Scale Analytics, and CSA Loom. Any description of third-party or competing products, ...

You can create and schedule elastic jobs that periodically run against one or many Azure SQL databases. The jobs run Transact-SQL (T-SQL) queries and perform maintenance tasks. You can define target ...

This tutorial shows how to import and export Azure SQL Database BACPAC files with managed identity authentication. Managed identity authentication removes the need to provide SQL administrator ...

This tutorial uses the feature introduced in Use Microsoft Entra groups to manage role assignments. For more information on the benefits of assigning the Directory Readers role to a Microsoft Entra ...

Microsoft unveiled .NET Aspire at the Build 2024 developer conference, describing it as an opinionated, cloud-ready stack for building observable, production ready, distributed, cloud-native ...

The cloud is becoming increasingly distributed, with container technologies allowing easy deployment of what had been cloud functionality to devices at the edge of the network. What began with ...

Windows Azure Platform is the cloud offering from Microsoft that encompasses many independent services for compute, storage, networking, monitoring and reporting among others. IT professionals ...

Perhaps we missed it at first, but Copilot is more than comfortable with SQL. This goes beyond autocomplete. This is moving from nothing to a working database without leaving our tools. Have we really ...

A new comparison explains operational statistics, query plans and troubleshooting tools for teams considering SQL migration.