SQL Server on Azure Local is generally available. Review disconnected deployment requirements, separate licensing, and recovery planning before adopting it. Microsoft has made SQL Server on Azure ...

Developers have trusted SQL for decades, since long before AI existed. Now coding agents help choose the database, and they favor the one they can get running in the first few minutes. So today we’re ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article shows you how to migrate databases from a SQL Server instance enabled by Azure Arc to Azure SQL Database in the Azure portal. Azure SQL Database is a fully managed platform as a service ...

If you’ve been building local prototypes, internal tools, web backends, or lightweight services on SQL Server Express, you know the routine: it’s free, familiar, and gets the job done – until you hit ...

A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, complete with a PowerShell script that handles the networking configuration.

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 ...

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At Ignite 2024, Microsoft announced a new hybrid and edge computing platform branded as Azure Local. Built on the solid foundation of Azure Arc, Azure Local aims to bridge the gap between on-premises ...

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