Wednesday, December 14, 2016
We’re excited to announce the availability of Change Feed support in Azure DocumentDB! With ChangeFeed support, DocumentDB provides a sorted list of documents within a DocumentDB collection in the…
Wednesday, December 7, 2016
We are happy to announce that Query Store is turned ON in all Azure SQL databases (including Elastic Pools) which will bring benefits both to the end users and the entire Azure SQL Database platform.
Wednesday, December 7, 2016
In just the last couple of weeks, we have added two new partners and solutions to the growing blockchain ecosystem in the Azure Marketplace.
Tuesday, December 6, 2016
Columnstore index is the preferred technology to run analytics queries in Azure SQL Databases. We recently announced general availability if In-Memory technologies for all Premium databases.…
Monday, December 5, 2016
We are pleased to announce that Azure SQL Data Warehouse now supports the creation of secondary B-Tree indexes (also referred to as non-clustered indexes or NCI) on column store tables (also referred to as clustered column store indexes or CCI).
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
Today we are announcing the general availability (GA) of several features as well as a new REST API version and .NET SDK that support the new GA features. All GA features and APIs are covered by the standard Azure service level agreement (SLA) and can be used in production workloads.
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
At Ignite 2016, Jason Zander announced SAP HANA on Azure (Large Instances) is generally available. For those who might have missed it in the blitz, here are the key things you should know.
Monday, November 28, 2016
In order to recognize and honor community members who are most active on forums, we are going to publish monthly leaderboards. This is a pilot effort for Database Systems, including SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, and SQL Server VMs on Azure questions on MSDN.
Tuesday, November 22, 2016
In-Memory OLTP in Azure SQL Database improves performance and introduces cost savings for transaction processing, data ingestion, and transient data scenarios.
Thursday, November 17, 2016
Earlier today we published the paper "Total Cost of (Non) Ownership (TCO) of NoSQL databases in 2016." comparing TCO of hosting OSS NoSQL databases on-premises and Azure Virtual Machines, and using managed NoSQL database as a service like Azure DocumentDB.
