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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 ...

After almost a generation of relative stability, database technology has been rocked over the past decade by two megatrends—the end of the one-size-fits-all RDBMS model and the rise of cloud computing ...

And Nehme is gung-ho, asserting that developers should use Cosmos DB for any new Azure-based application. That's a bold statement, especially for a former member of the SQL Server team who worked on ...

New ways to bring MongoDB data and apps to Azure Cosmos DB Your email has been sent Branded as Microsoft’s “planetary scale database,” Cosmos DB is one of Azure’s foundational services, powering its ...

After announcing support for Cosmos DB inside the Microsoft Fabric data platform at Build 2025, Microsoft recently opened a public preview of the new service. This release gives Cosmos DB a new role ...

Microsoft’s recent launch of a standalone version of the MongoDB compatibility layer for its global-scale Azure Cosmos DB brought back an old name. Back in 2018, when the company unveiled a public ...

“We want this to be the database of the future and to last for many decades to come,” Microsoft Technical Fellow Dharma Shukla told me when we talked about Cosmos DB, the new globally distributed ...