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 ...

One of the Azure SQL-related announcements that did not get a lot of publicity at May's Microsoft Build conference was the Azure SQL Database local database experience. With all the hype around SQL ...

What are the challenges for migrating applications into Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud? There are a number of potential challenges when you migrate an application from an on-premises infrastructure ...

Databases (Oracle or otherwise) have long resided on-premises. For many reasons, organizations have largely relied on local infrastructure to host their Oracle databases. But in recent years, the ...

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 ...

Yugabyte Inc. said today that its unified database migration service YugabyteDB Voyager is now generally available, giving enterprises a simplified way to migrate workloads to its open-source ...

Microsoft Corp. unveiled a slew of updates to the Azure cloud platform at its online Build 2022 developer conference today, with new capabilities for cloud-native applications, big data, hybrid cloud ...

SQL Server end of support is a recurring cost. Ascent argues moving to versionless Azure SQL ends the upgrade cycle – once, ...

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 ...