In this white paper, we investigate the SQL Server database backup options in Azure Virtual Machine. We start by explaining the uses and importance of backing up databases. We continue by discussing ...

And for Azure SQL Database customers that need to scale compute and memory as needed, Microsoft rolled out a new serverless pricing option that lets developers pay by the second for their usage ...

Get ready to scale out SQL Azure databases beyond today's 50GB limit with the Transact-SQL and ADO.NET elastic sharding features, which are coming in the 2011 SQL Azure Federation Community Technology ...

Microsoft is also planning to launch a new “portal experience” called “Azure SQL” that will enable customers to manage both the Azure SQL Database and SQL Server on Azure VM ...

Since we know we're a database heavy application, we make sure the database has resources to spare. In Azure, the VM size is large. We attach a disk for SQL Data, SQL Log, and SQL Archive.

Then enterprises must dedicate Azure VM attached disks for database data, according to McDermid. Management tools, such as Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer, AzCopy, PowerShell, and SQL Management ...