Microsoft will retire SCOM SQL monitoring packs in 2027, pushing customers toward Azure Monitor and cloud billing.

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SQL Server 2022: Here’s what you need to know Your email has been sent Three decades on, SQL Server is still a database workhorse that powers both an internal line ...

At Microsoft's Ignite digital event this week, the company is announcing the private preview of SQL Server 2022, the next version of its three-decades-old relational database management system (RDBMS) ...

With Extended Support for SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 ending in July 2019, to be followed six months later by the end of Extended Support for Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 in January 2020 ...

Microsoft announced this week that it plans to release a "General Purpose" version of its Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance (MI) at the "general availability" (GA) commercial-release stage, ...

How Microsoft made Azure SQL more available by making recovery faster Your email has been sent Databases are wonderful things, until they go wrong. Then you’re left waiting for a recovery to unwind ...

Microsoft detailed a raft of improvements coming to its database products at this week's PASS Summit, including migration support to Azure SQL Database, Apache Kafka Support on Azure Event Hubs, Azure ...

Microsoft’s January 2026 Azure Database for MySQL update delivers security patches and reliability fixes, with no new ...

Ahead of Microsoft Build (and a possible SQL Server announcement), let's break down what we know and speculate about what we don't. One topic that has come up in several conversations with customers ...