Recently, I was approached by a small but growing technology company with an urgent problem: Microsoft’s announcement regarding the retirement of Azure Database for MariaDB had caught them completely ...

Microsoft releases SSMA v10.5 to enhance SQL Server and Azure SQL migrations. AI-assisted code conversion improves Oracle and SAP ASE compatibility and reliability. Updated migration tooling supports ...

This book aims to introduce Azure SQL managed databases, how does it fare? Businesses are increasingly aware of the advantages of cloud-based systems (e.g. cost savings, scalability), this has ...

Azure SQL Database customers using Always Encrypted with Intel SGX must migrate to VBS enclaves or evaluate SQL Server on Azure Confidential VMs before Oct. 31, 2027.

Microsoft has launched a limited preview of Migration Accelerator, a tool that automates the migration of workloads away from a VMware virtualized data center or Amazon Web Services cloud into ...

Microsoft Corp. today is introducing updates across its database portfolio as part of general availability announcements for Azure DocumentDB and SQL Server 2025. The software and cloud giant is also ...

A new migration agent in Azure Copilot guides you through the process of moving applications to Azure, while drawing on GitHub Copilot agents to update them. Microsoft has given Azure many hats: a ...

Nowadays, organizations need to migrate and move data from the Oracle database to various data lakes, such as Microsoft Fabric and Snowflake. These data lakes are used in data analytics and by data ...