Database backups and restores are key to developing a secure environment for users’ information. A trusted backup plan is a requirement for on-premise and cloud instances. SQL Server database backups ...

About 5,500 of the SQL Server faithful came out for the PASS Summit 2018 in Seattle last November. As usual, the event had the feel of a great big family reunion. It’s always a fun time, with lots of ...

At the second day of the SQL PASS Summit in Seattle, Microsoft announcing a new SQL Azure release as well as some completely new features. Microsoft indicated the improvements planned for the next ...

Get ready to scale out SQL Azure databases beyond today's 50GB limit with the Transact-SQL and ADO.NET elastic sharding features, which are coming in the 2011 SQL Azure Federation Community Technology ...

Microsoft broke new ground in scalability when it launched Azure SQL Database Hyperscale. Here's what it took to make Microsoft's hyperscale vision work with the existing Azure infrastructure. When ...

REDMOND, Wash. — Oct. 13, 2011 — In today’s PASS Summit 2011 keynote address, Quentin Clark, corporate vice president of Microsoft SQL Server Database Systems Group, underscored the company’s ...

“It's our goal to help customers achieve ultimate scalability, performance and deployment flexibility for mission-critical workloads running in the public and private cloud,” Clark said. “Built from ...