Microsoft has just added support for query hints to Azure SQL Database, giving database administrators a powerful tool to manage the performance of ISV application code. Here's how it works. Database ...

New Azure Data Tables libraries and beta Azure Monitor libraries highlight the latest update to the Azure SDK. As part of the June 2021 release, Microsoft announced seven Stable updates and 18 ...

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Take advantage of Azure Table storage in your .Net applications to store large amounts of key-value data in the Microsoft cloud Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform provides interoperable cloud ...

Get ready to scale out SQL Azure databases beyond today's 50GB limit with the Transact-SQL and ADO.NET elastic sharding features, which are coming in the 2011 SQL Azure Federation Community Technology ...

There is a lot of data out there, and much of it doesn’t need to be stored in heavyweight relational databases, with complex query languages. That is particularly true of modern cloud applications and ...