Azure SQL vs SQL Server: Which One Should You Choose for Your Next Project?

Azure SQL vs SQL Server in 2026: compare cost, features, AI, and migration paths, plus when Managed Instance beats Azure VM in one clear framework.
GeekWire

Larry Ellison makes first-ever visit to Redmond to announce Oracle databases in Microsoft cloud

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, left, and Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison on a live stream from Redmond, announcing plans to expand their partnership with a new service called Oracle Database@Azure ...
TechCrunch

Microsoft launches Azure Database for MySQL and PostgreSQL

While Microsoft’s big Azure database news today is the launch of Cosmos DB, its new “planet-scale” distributed database service, there is a good chance that many developers will actually be more ...
Redmond Magazine

Creating Azure SQL Databases with PowerShell and Azure Resource Manager Templates

There are lots of ways to create MSSQL databases via PowerShell. We could invoke a T-SQL query using the CREATE DATABASE term, we could write some code to use the [Create() method with SMO] or, if ...
MCPmag

Connecting to an Azure SQL Database with PowerShell

One way that organizations are storing data in the cloud is by moving their databases to the cloud. What once meant building an entire physical server, patching it, installing software like Microsoft ...