Azure SQL database To start, log in to Microsoft Azure using your administrative credentials. From the Home or Dashboard screen, click the Create a resource (+) link.

When you need a SQL database fast, the cloud is the best way to go. Azure provides a SQL database as a PaaS that eliminates the need to get an entire SQL Server deployment up and running.

Microsoft's premade templates allows for the deployment of SQL databases without having to use complex PowerShell commands.

SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database both give you tables that automatically keep track of changes to your data. Here's how to both create those tables and alter existing tables so they track the ...

Azure Data Studio Notebooks also received updates, including: The ability to create or open Notebooks using an integrated Notebook viewer, which in the new release supports connecting to local kernels ...

Azure SQL Data Warehouse Azure SQL Data Warehouse keeps getting better. It now has several new features, such as Result-set Caching, Materialized Views, and support for sorted columnstore indexes.

By using a single tool like PowerShell, you can access your data wherever it is stored. It does not matter if it is in the cloud in an Azure SQL database or in an on-premises MS-SQL server, MySQL or ...