Joey on SQL Server How To Automate Tasks in Azure SQL Database Knowing how to automate tasks in the cloud will make you a more productive DBA.

Microsoft's premade templates allows for the deployment of SQL databases without having to use complex PowerShell commands.

If you are an old hand at Microsoft SQL Server, you have probably used the SQL Server Agent (i.e., SQL Agent) service and MSDB database for the last 20 years. With a humble and largely unchanged ...

By using a single tool like PowerShell, you can access your data wherever it is stored. It does not matter if it is in the cloud in an Azure SQL database or in an on-premises MS-SQL server, MySQL or ...

Microsoft today announced an interesting update to its database lineup with the preview of Azure SQL Database Edge, a new tool that brings the same ...

Like the rest of the SQL Server family, Azure SQL Edge is a relational database with nonrelational capabilities. You can use it for traditional table-based storage, or instead work with JSON ...

While SQL Server looks costly compared to the likes of MySQL and Postgresql, for companies seeking a commercially supported database, SQL Server tends to look dirt cheap compared to Oracle.

The SQL Azure Migration Wizard (SQLAzureMW) is a CodePlex project and wizard that can be used to migrate SQL 2005 and SQL 2008 databases to SQL Azure.