This article guides you through enabling the Microsoft Entra-only authentication feature within Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance. If you are looking to provision a SQL Database or SQL ...

Application requests to Azure SQL Database must be authenticated. Although there are multiple options for authenticating to Azure SQL Database, you should prioritize passwordless connections in your ...

Lausanne-based insurance group Vaudoise, one of the top ten private insurers in Switzerland, has entered a new phase of its Azure cloud transformation. By adopting Microsoft’s Shared Management ...

Azure database savings plans cut cloud costs across SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL and Cosmos DB. Unlike reservations, Azure savings plans offer cross-region, cross-service flexibility with simpler pricing.

Change Event Streaming (CES) in SQL Server 2025 and Azure SQL enables event-driven architectures by streaming JSON records from table activity to Azure Event Hub, with Entra support now available in ...

“Temenos Core is powered by Azure SQL Database Hyperscale, which supports database sizes of up to 128 terabytes. Our customers get the processing speed and architectural flexibility to future-proof ...

Microsoft has moved its Model Context Protocol (MCP) support for Azure Functions to General Availability, signaling a shift toward standardized, identity-secure agentic workflows. By integrating ...

Enterprises need data, and data needs to be stored, with a flexible, portable environment that scales from developers’ laptops to global clouds. That storage also needs to be able to run on any OS and ...

Microsoft expanded its browser-based development tooling with recent updates to VS Code for the Web -- Azure, introducing faster entry points for moving AI-generated code into an editable, ...

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 ...