Finally, Microsoft has added cross-database query support to Azure SQL’s elastic database query feature, essentially allowing multiple databases to contribute rows into a single result.

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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 ...

But what about the database? What happens when simultaneous queries are executed against the same data? Davide Mauri knows the answers to those questions, as the principal product manager working for ...

I have an application which we intend to deploy to a multinode, active/active SQL cluster. This application has two types of databases - one is an operational store, of which there can be N of ...

The general availability of SQL Server 2017 for Windows and Linux is among the announcements made by Microsoft at its Ignite conference in Orlando. SQL Server 2017 is the first cross-platform ...

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