This article explains how to enable, verify, and disable performance monitoring for a database in Azure SQL Database, and how to view and query the data that it collects. Performance monitoring ...

If you're considering moving your on-premises SQL Server databases to the Microsoft Azure cloud, you need to decide which of the different cloud options works best for you. You might not realize it to ...

Learn how to use the Azure Portal to create a cloud-based SQL database with just a few mouse clicks. While the embrace of big data, machine learning, and IoT by business enterprises everywhere may ...

One of the advantages of the cloud is scale. We don’t call the big three cloud platforms hyperscale for nothing; they have massive data centers all around the world with millions of servers that can ...

This article describes how to plan, deploy, secure, and operate SQL Server on Windows Server or supported Linux virtual machines (VMs) in Azure Local with disconnected operations. Before you begin: ...

If you are an old hand at Microsoft SQL Server, you have probably used the SQL Server Agent (i.e., SQL Agent) service and MSDB database for the last 20 years. With a humble and largely unchanged ...