Abstract: Azure SQL DB offers disaggregated storage architecture called Hyperscale. While this architecture provides storage scale out, it comes at the cost of performance of I/O from remote storage.

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Are you worried about missing out on running workloads on older versions of MySQL after the community ends official support? Well, there’s finally some good news for you. Microsoft today announced a ...

A new SQL Server 2025 feature lets organizations run vector-based semantic searches on their own data, connecting to local or cloud-hosted AI models without relying on massive general-purpose LLMs. I ...

We’re excited to announce a new migration experience in Azure Arc to simplify and accelerate SQL Server migration. This new experience, now in preview, is powered by Azure Database Migration Service ...

Your Azure bill is bleeding cash, but AI can be the scalpel that slashes waste, spots spikes and silently saves you thousands before finance sees the damage. Managing cloud costs in Azure has become ...

Although we had to implement a self-healing cache mechanism directly within our application, switching to Memcached saves us $5,000 per month. In cloud architecture, we often prioritize performance, ...

Microsoft unveiled .NET Aspire at the Build 2024 developer conference, describing it as an opinionated, cloud-ready stack for building observable, production ready, distributed, cloud-native ...

I have an Azure App Service that is called multiple times per second. This App Service connects to an Azure SQL Database using a managed identity. The application ...

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