Learn how to use the Azure Portal to create a cloud-based SQL database with just a few mouse clicks.

I've kept you informed over the years about not just the latest news and features in SQL Server, but across the entire Microsoft Data Platform, both on-premise and in the cloud. This includes ...

Getting started with the free Cosmos DB You will need to create a new account to take advantage of the free tier; it’s not available as a billing option on existing applications.

Microsoft has added a new free tier for Azure Cosmos DB, its multi-model, globally distributed cloud database. Here's how it works.

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 ...

Like the rest of the SQL Server family, Azure SQL Edge is a relational database with nonrelational capabilities. You can use it for traditional table-based storage, or instead work with JSON ...

How will SQL Database Edge connect back to Azure/on-premises? Azure SQL Database Edge has a streaming engine which is built on top of Azure Stream Analytics.

Copilot for Azure SQL Database has limited private preview and no pricing information. Microsoft has indicated to me that this will be a paid offering but has offered no pricing model.

With these elastic database pools, customers pay for the aggregate of all the databases instead of for each one separately.