This article describes how to deploy SQL Server on Azure Local in connected mode. SQL Server runs on Windows Server or Linux virtual machines (VMs) in an Azure Local cluster that maintains ...

SQL Server on Azure Local runs SQL Server workloads on Windows Server or Linux virtual machines (VMs) in your own infrastructure. You can keep data close to users and applications while choosing a ...

As app developers, our primary focus is building great user experiences, designing APIs, and shipping features quickly. What we don’t want is database friction—wasting hours configuring local DB ...

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 ...

Some of the world’s most critical databases run in places where cloud connectivity cannot be assumed. A remote industrial site, for example, may need production systems to continue operating when ...

This article also covers the updated functionality to set up a Microsoft Entra admin for SQL Server in the Azure portal that would allow for automated certificate creation and application registration ...

Azure Data Studio is a free Microsoft desktop tool, initially called SQL Operations Studio, that can be used to manage SQL Server databases and cloud-based Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Data ...

Microsoft announced this week that it plans to release a "General Purpose" version of its Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance (MI) at the "general availability" (GA) commercial-release stage, ...