When you need a SQL database fast, the cloud is the best way to go. Azure provides a SQL database as a PaaS that eliminates the need to get an entire SQL Server deployment up and running.

Microsoft's premade templates allows for the deployment of SQL databases without having to use complex PowerShell commands.

Learn how to use the Azure Portal to create a cloud-based SQL database with just a few mouse clicks.

Access from an unusual Azure data center: These alerts fire when a user logs into an Azure SQL resource from a data center other than the usual or the regular data center used to log in. SQL injection ...

In addition, Azure SQL Database Edge supports representing data structures as graphs to create deeper relationships across entities.

As mentioned earlier, you can still use SQL Agent on Azure VMs and, with some limitations, on Azure SQL Managed Instances. With all of those options competing for your attention, just remember that ...