Data is the new currency of the digital world, and Microsoft is uniquely positioned to help businesses and consumers get the most out of their data assets. With the leading database in the world, SQL Server, and the rapidly growing ... continue reading

This blog post was authored by Mine Tokus, Senior Program Manager, COGS Data - SQL DB. We recently published “Storage Configuration Guidelines for SQL Server on Azure VM” on the SQL Database Engine Blog summarizing the test findings from running ... continue reading

Whether youre an experienced DBA with multiple certifications or just starting on your SQL Server DBA journey, you face challenges constantly for putting your organizations data to work. To turn the next-to-impossible into the practical, you need a comprehensive resource ... continue reading

This post is authored by Amit Banerjee, Principal PM Manager, SQL Server andBob Ward,Principal Architect, Microsoft SQL Server Data Services. SQL Server has provided enterprises the capability to manage all facets of their relational data. Over the years, we have ... continue reading

SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines service offers the full control of VM and SQL Server and enables the simplest cloud migration path for SQL Server workloads. SQL IaaS Extension is installed on each SQL VM created through Azure Market ... continue reading

Today at Ignite, Microsoft announced the preview of SQL Server 2019. For 25 years, SQL Server has helped enterprises manage all facets of their relational data. In recent releases, SQL Server has gone beyond querying relational data by unifying graph ... continue reading

Pearl Abyss is a Korea based game development studio established in 2009. Black Desert Online, a PC-massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), is their main title in production published across the globe. On February 28, 2018, Pearl Abyss launched Black ... continue reading

Azure SQL Database Engineering Team (@azuresqldb) represented by (Ajay Jagannathan, and Sunil Agarwal) will be speaking at Data Platform Summit 2018 (#DPS10), Asia’s Premier Data & Analytics Conference taking place on August 9-11 in Bangalore, India. Data Platform Summit 2018 ... continue reading

We just added new database-scoped configuration options that will help with monitoring performance of natively compiled stored procedures. The new options XTP_PROCEDURE_EXECUTION_STATISTICS and XTP_QUERY_EXECUTION_STATISTICS are available now in Azure SQL Database, and will be available in the next major release ... continue reading