SQL Server

Microsoft is expanding its Azure, IoT, end Edge services ahead of build with new features and options as the company continues its push deeper into the cloud-computing era.

Microsoft has announced a new data protection feature for its SQL Server tool. The new capability enables organizations to classify and protect SQL Server data with Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) sensitivity labels. If you’re unfamiliar, Microsoft Information Protection is a unified solution that enables customers to discover, classify, and protect data based on its sensitivity…

As of this past November 9th 2021, AWS now offers the ability to switch between AWS provided licenses and bring your own licenses (BYOL) for Windows Server and SQL Server instances using the AWS License Manager. Changing the license type associated with your instances will retain the application, instance, data and configuration for that instance….

Back in 2017, Microsoft had an ambitious plan to run SQL Server in a Windows container. At that time, containers were starting to make big waves in the infrastructure market and Microsoft did not want to be left out of the conversation. The company spun up its SQL Server on Windows Containers beta program and…

Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve spotted lots of tiny little changes in the Azure Portal. And my feeds have lit up over the last few hours. There must be a big Microsoft conference happening right around now? Yup, Microsoft Ignite (March 2021) is here and that means there will be lots of cool…

October, the first month in Q4 of the calendar year and Q2 of the Microsoft financial year, is also in the middle of planning for the next semester of development of Microsoft Azure (codenamed Cobalt).

September was Ignite month – I will get to that in a moment. That means there should be lots of news. And this should be a post full of Azure announcements. But will it be?

With August now behind us, here’s a look at the major announcements from this month.

This month sees a bumper crop of 99 patches from Microsoft, including a fix for the IE zero-day announced last month and a change in default configuration for new Windows Server Active Directory deployments.

As we approach Build, Microsoft is ramping up the Azure announcements; here’s everything that happened last month.