With these elastic database pools, customers pay for the aggregate of all the databases instead of for each one separately.

Azure SQL Database elastic pools were first announced during last year’s Microsoft Build conference, and finally hit general availability late last week.

I recently had the pleasure of discussing Azure Elastic Database Jobs (i.e., Elastic Jobs) with Kate Smith and Srini Acharya, program managers in the Microsoft SQL Database product group, specifically ...

Azure SQL Database Elastic Jobs preview faces a refresh, introducing customer-requested features and additions including Microsoft Entra ID support, Service-managed Private Link for secure ...

The elastic data warehouse is a cloud version of a familiar data tool. "It's built on decades of innovation in SQL Server, that's the core engine on which the node engine is running.

Microsoft's portfolio of PaaS databases has grown way beyond Azure SQL. Here are its most important cloud-based database services, and exactly how each one works differently from the other.

Serverless is a compute tier for single databases in Azure SQL Database that automatically scales compute based on workload demand and bills for the amount of compute used per second.

Elastic Capabilities But that’s hardly the only announcement Guthrie made from the stage. Microsoft’s Azure SQL, its database as a service, will now have elastic capabilities. The benefit?

Elastic database pools, an Azure SQL option that automatically scales cloud databases up or down as conditions dictate, is now generally available.