Microsoft has detailed a couple of improvements to the way Azure SQL Database handles failovers in case of an outage. It works with individual databases, elastic pools, or a combination of both. The ...

After weeks without many database updates, Microsoft ramped up its database announcements as it reached the middle of September. Principal software engineer Hans Olav Norheim went over hot patching ...

A number of options are available for providing high availability protection for applications running in the Azure cloud. Some of these options are cloud-based services. Some are in the operating ...