Microsoft offers two paths for running enterprise databases: SQL Server, which you install and manage yourself, and Azure SQL, which Microsoft runs for you as a managed service. Both use the same ...

Change Event Streaming (CES) in SQL Server 2025 and Azure SQL enables event-driven architectures by streaming JSON records from table activity to Azure Event Hub, with Entra support now available in ...

Microsoft’s declarative REST and GraphQL API design tool supports MySQL and Postgres as well as Azure databases and works anywhere you can run a Docker container. Microsoft Azure is now so big it’s ...

Indexers in Azure AI Search connect to external data sources over a public endpoint. If you're setting up an Azure SQL indexer for a connection to a SQL managed instance, follow the steps in this ...

.NET Aspire is a cloud-native application stack designed to simplify the development of distributed systems in .NET. Introduced at Microsoft's 2024 Build developer conference, it provides a set of ...

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 ...

Take advantage of connection resiliency in EF Core to detect errors and retry commands and enable your ASP.NET Core application to overcome transient faults. A high-quality application must be stable, ...

When many of us moved our server and application needs to the cloud, we rejoiced that we no longer had to worry about the drudgery of patching. We didn’t have to monitor servers and their Patch ...