On August 12, Microsoft made available the first version of a tool designed to help customers migrate from MySQL to SQL Server and/or SQL Azure. Microsoft made available a first technology preview of ...

Microsoft has announced support for MySQL and PostgreSQL as fully managed instances on the Azure cloud platform. Additionally, the company has also launched a new NoSQL database called Cosmos DB with ...

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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 ...

'What AMP does is try to accelerate the customers' comfort with Azure or even public cloud infrastructure for that matter,' says Jason Rook, vice president of market development for 10th Magnitude, ...

"It's really about choice," Rohan Kumar, Microsoft's General Manager, Database Systems, told me yesterday as he briefed me on the new offerings. Kumar further explained: "if you're a developer, you ...