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 ...

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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It’s not surprising that developers have become increasingly dependent on the open source PostgreSQL, the nearly 30-year-old successor to the University of California Berkeley’s Ingres (hence its name ...

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Three weeks ago I wrote that Amazon RDS was going to eat into MySQL’s revenue potential. I also pointed out that Amazon’s RDS was but a precursor to future Amazon cloud service offerings for other ...

The expanded support provides visibility into query-level metrics and detailed explain plans so all Microsoft customers can benefit from Database Monitoring With this expanded support, engineers and ...

"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 ...

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