Get started faster with common SQL workflows and resources in one place. The MSSQL extension for VS Code v1.46 introduces a new Getting Started page experience in Public Preview with quick actions, guided walkthroughs, dev container templates, and one-click installation of the latest Microsoft SQL agent skills for GitHub Copilot. Available to all customers starting with this release, the […]
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 hardware limits or spend weekends manual backup scripts and handling OS patches. Learn how to upgrade from SQL Server Express to Azure
Outgrowing SQL Server Express? Upgrade to Azure SQL Database Free Tier in 3 Steps Continue Reading
Writing and maintaining SQL is easier when you can eliminate repetitive steps and keep your scripts cleanly formatted. With the MSSQL extension for VS Code v1.45, we’re introducing the Public Preview of the SQL Formatter alongside the General Availability of Azure SQL Database Provisioning and Shortcuts Configuration. You can now apply consistent T-SQL formatting across
Hello Folks! If you have ever inherited a sprawling Azure environment and quietly wondered whether every VM, database, AKS cluster, and storage account in it is actually being backed up the way the business thinks it is, you are in good company. In session this session of the Microsoft Azure Infra Summit 2026, Bhavya Tadikonda
Hello Folks! If you have ever wrestled with Azure Files inside a storage account, juggling shared RBAC, shared networking, and shared IOPS across a pile of shares that really should not live together, this session is going to address all that. During Microsoft Azure Infra Summit 2026, Vincent Du and Will Gries (both Product Managers
On-Device AI Inference Changes the Architecture, Not the Risk As organizations transform into Frontier Firms and integrate AI into more applications, cloud-hosted inference is not always the optimal architectural choice. Some applications operate with limited connectivity, require low-latency responses, or involve data that organizations prefer to process locally. As AI usage scales, token economics also
Securing On-Device AI: Evaluating Foundry Local Models with AI Red Teaming Agent Continue Reading
In this article Every day, customers trust Microsoft Databases to power their most critical applications, business processes, and AI-powered experiences. Continuous customer feedback provides valuable insights into how these technologies perform in production and where we should continue investing. I’m honored to share that Microsoft Databases have received multiple 2026 PeerSpot Customer Choice / Tech
What customers value most in Microsoft Databases—from reliability to AI readiness Continue Reading
Hello Folks! If you have ever lived through a Friday night SAN expansion, racking new shelves and praying the zoning held together, the idea of getting that same shared block storage model in Azure (without owning a single fibre channel cable) sounds almost too good to be true. In his session at the Microsoft Azure
Azure Elastic SAN: Pooled, Cloud-Native Block Storage That Actually Acts Like a SAN Continue Reading
Hello Folks! If you have ever stared at an HPC pipeline and wondered why the queue depth keeps climbing while every CPU graph looks lazy, this session from the Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Summit 2026 is going to feel very familiar. Ron Hogue from the Azure Storage team and Ranga Sankar from NetApp spend twenty-seven minutes
In this article AI is driving a fundamental shift in how work gets done and how applications are built. As the 2026 Microsoft Work Trend Index Report highlights, a growing share of workers are moving beyond asking questions to handing off entire tasks and orchestrating multi-agent systems. This shift introduces a new constraint. The challenge
