Recently, I was approached by a small but growing technology company with an urgent problem: Microsoft’s announcement regarding the retirement of Azure Database for MariaDB had caught them completely ...

This book aims to introduce Azure SQL managed databases, how does it fare? Businesses are increasingly aware of the advantages of cloud-based systems (e.g. cost savings, scalability), this has ...

Azure SQL Database customers using Always Encrypted with Intel SGX must migrate to VBS enclaves or evaluate SQL Server on Azure Confidential VMs before Oct. 31, 2027.

Due to my background working with other major database platforms such as Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL, I’ve long been an advocate for the SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA). This powerful and easy ...

Microsoft has launched a limited preview of Migration Accelerator, a tool that automates the migration of workloads away from a VMware virtualized data center or Amazon Web Services cloud into ...

SQL Server on Azure Local is generally available. Review disconnected deployment requirements, separate licensing, and ...

Nowadays, organizations need to migrate and move data from the Oracle database to various data lakes, such as Microsoft Fabric and Snowflake. These data lakes are used in data analytics and by data ...