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Managing SQL Server across hybrid and multi-cloud environments has long posed a challenge for database administrators. With data sprawled across on-premises infrastructure, cloud platforms, and edge ...

Microsoft simplifies Azure SQL Managed Instance regional limits, reducing quota administration and improving enterprise database capacity planning. Azure SQL Managed Instance removes regional subnet ...

If you’ve used Azure in the past, you probably know that there are two main ways to deploy SQL Server on Microsoft’s cloud—Azure SQL Database, the PaaS offering; and Azure VMs running SQL Server.

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 ...