You can create and schedule elastic jobs that periodically run against one or many Azure SQL databases. The jobs run Transact-SQL (T-SQL) queries and perform maintenance tasks. You can define target ...

This article summarizes job automation options. Consider the following job scheduling and task automation technologies on different platforms: Scope Any number of databases in Azure SQL Database only.

Microsoft’s declarative REST and GraphQL API design tool supports MySQL and Postgres as well as Azure databases and works anywhere you can run a Docker container. Microsoft Azure is now so big it’s ...

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Knowing how to automate tasks in the cloud will make you a more productive DBA. Here are the key concepts to understand about cloud scripting and a rundown of the best tools for automating code in ...

This article provides an overview of the failover group feature with best practices and recommendations to use with Azure SQL Managed Instance. The failover groups feature allows you to manage the ...

One of the Azure SQL-related announcements that did not get a lot of publicity at May's Microsoft Build conference was the Azure SQL Database local database experience. With all the hype around SQL ...

Microsoft today announced an interesting update to its database lineup with the preview of Azure SQL Database Edge, a new tool that brings the same database engine that powers Azure SQL Database in ...