The foundation of Microsoft’s AI advancements is its infrastructure. It was custom designed and built from the ground up to power some of the world’s most widely used and demanding services. While...

We take pride in delivering innovation with each new version of Microsoft SQL Server. However, there comes a time when product lifecycles must conclude. As of July 9, 2024, SQL Server 2014 has...

The increasing adoption of AI technologies is presenting new challenges for our customers’ data estate and applications. Most organizations expect to deploy AI workloads across a hybrid mix of...

The Oracle Cloud Console is how our customers access the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services needed to run any workload across 85 Oracle Cloud regions. It's where our customers manage their...

Oracle today announced the limited preview of Oracle Database@AWS. Customers will now be able to run Oracle Exadata Database Service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure...

The advent of powerful cloud infrastructures combined with advanced GPUs has enabled us to push the boundaries of what’s possible with AI. Over the last year, generative AI models have...

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Cloud Advisor is a free service that helps customers optimize their cloud spending. In this blog post, we offer tips on how best to use Cloud Advisor. Cloud Advisor...

Every application’s value depends on access to accurate data that resides close to the application, while being compliant with mandated data residency requirements. An application deployed across...

In today’s landscape where security and user experience are paramount, Oracle Fusion Applications fully supports cutting-edge authentication technologies from identity providers (IDPs) like Oracle...

Recently, influential individuals and organizations like Puppet, David Hansson, and Basecamp have been sharing their own insights on the cloud. They state that you should...

Meta’s Llama models have become the go-to standard for open large language models (LLMs). With 10 times the downloads from last year, Llama models continue to lead the industry on openness,...

The Oracle database has long been one of the most widely deployed technologies in the enterprise, but that doesn’t mean enterprises have to run it on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)....

We are honored to be recognized by Gartner® as a Leader in the recently published 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Strategic Cloud Platform Services (SCPS). In the report, Gartner placed...

When the Premier League’s Bournemouth trailed Luton Town by three goals at the start of the second half, a draw seemed unlikely and a win nearly impossible. After four Bournemouth goals in the span...

Oracle on Thursday launched the latest version of its database service, including new vector search capabilities that are part of the tech giant's effort to augment data with generative AI where it...

Backup and restore to simple storage service (S3)–compatible object storage is a new feature introduced in SQL Server 2022 that grants the user the capability to back up or restore their...

Link feature for SQL Server 2022 Overview The link feature, announced in the March SQL Server 2022 preview, is reimagining the connection between SQL Server hosted anywhere and the fully...

Customers who are running their SQL Server workloads using SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines and Azure SQL Managed Instance are now eligible for new high availability (HA) and disaster recovery...

In the face of changing market conditions and pressure to accelerate growth, the ability for customers to do more with less is critical. And while the cloud has long been the north star for...

Cardinality estimation (CE) is a process used by the query optimizer to estimate the number of rows returned by a query or sub-part of a query. These estimates rely on two underlying things:...

Time series data is a set of values organized in the order in which they occur and arrive for processing. Unlike transactional data in SQL Server, which is not time-based and may be updated often,...

We are excited to share that there are several Accelerated Database Recovery (ADR) enhancements in SQL Server 2022 that further improve the overall availability and scalability of the...

Microsoft Azure knows SQL Server best and will support your cloud migration at no cost for qualifying scenarios. The SQL Server platform has been successfully driving transformative business results...

Introducing the new centrally managed Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server. Today, Microsoft is pleased to announce the release of centrally managed Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server, a new...

Microsoft SQL Server Machine Learning Services is a feature that allows you to run Python, R, Java, and other Machine Learning languages in-database, using open-source packages and frameworks for...

SQL Server has brought reliability and security to mission-critical workloads for 30 years. SQL Server 2022, released November 2022, delivers performance enhancements as well as Azure connectivity...

At Microsoft, we’re seeing firsthand how data is powering incredible innovation and accelerating more than just a platform shift, it is changing the way we do everything. AI and generative AI...

Operational Technology (OT) networks play a critical role in manufacturing, defense, emergency services, food and agriculture, financial systems, and critical infrastructure, just to name a few. OT...

Although cybersecurity has become a priority at many manufacturing companies, risks have increased at the same time. To better understand how companies are addressing heightened risks, Manufacturers...

Zero-trust network access (ZTNA) has become the leading project for organizations looking to adopt zero-trust principles. Gartner predicts that 60% of organizations will be adopting zero trust...