Abstract: Azure SQL DB offers disaggregated storage architecture called Hyperscale. While this architecture provides storage scale out, it comes at the cost of performance of I/O from remote storage.

Excel to SQLite simplifies the process of importing Excel data into SQLite databases. It provides automatic schema detection, data transformations, validation rules, and includes an intelligent ...

Microsoft is moving another core database management component into the cloud, continuing its broader shift away from traditional on-premises infrastructure. According to Neowin, the company has ...

At today’s Ignite 2025 event, Microsoft announced one of the biggest Azure data updates in years. The company has announced the general availability of SQL Server 2025. That has come after a long ...

The recent “HITS in the cloud” webinar, hosted by Altron Digital Business and Microsoft South Africa, had a single message: SQL Server remains at the centre of enterprise operations. SQL is ubiquitous ...

Organizations are under constant pressure to modernize their estate. Legacy infrastructure, manual processes, and increasing data volumes in silos make it harder to deliver the performance, security, ...

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 ...

In today’s data-rich environment, business are always looking for a way to capitalize on available data for new insights and increased efficiencies. Given the escalating volumes of data and the ...

Microsoft has launched Azure Arc-enabled SQL Server on Windows in the US Government, Virginia region. The Redmond giant called this a "major first step". Microsoft has recently announced that Azure ...

Microsoft has made managing encryption keys more secure for users running SQL Server 2022 CU18 and later on Azure Linux Virtual Machines with Managed Identity. Microsoft has announced that SQL Server ...

We have seen how to read data from a file, either in unstructured text or CSV format, and how to write data in these formats. We’ve also seen how to read and write JSON. In this chapter we’ll see how ...