Database reliability extends beyond the ACID tests that most software professionals know. Database testing is divided into functional testing, ACID validation and performance testing. Functional tests ...

Applications come and go, but no one throws away a database. Databases are generally migrated, massaged and secured, but IT organizations rarely completely abandon them. Accordingly, testing a ...

Microsoft engineer Bob Ward introduces sqlsimtools, an open-source SQL Server workload simulation and performance testing suite. Sqlsimtools supports Azure SQL, Microsoft Fabric, concurrent workload ...

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 ...

Upgrade Cloud SQL for MySQL with sub-second switchover on Enterprise Plus, real-data read validation, and automatic endpoint ...

Using SQL Server Agent in AzureSQL Managed Instance, you can create and schedule jobs that could be periodically executed against one or many databases. These SQL Agent jobs run Transact-SQL (T-SQL) ...

Microsoft explains how Hyperscale separates compute, logging and storage while retaining a single primary for writes and SQL Server transaction semantics.