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Under the Hood: The Research Behind Microsoft SQL, part 2 Here’s a scenario that used to be genuinely frightening: you kick off a bulk load of a few hundred million rows in a single transaction. Somewhere in the middle, the server goes down. Not because of your load, just an unlucky reboot. When SQL Server comes back, it has to undo everythin...

In my last post, I broke down the Socrates paper, the research that became Azure SQL Database Hyperscale. Writing it made me want to tackle a question I think trips a lot of people up when they're choosing a database: is Azure SQL Database Hyperscale "distributed SQL"?  It's a fair question. "Distributed SQL" has become shorthand for "the relati...

Today we are announcing a new pricing tier for Azure SQL Database targeted at developers building cloud native applications. It is based on Azure SQL Database Hyperscale tier, which offers awesome cloud scalability with one of the lowest TCO in the industry. Azure SQL Database Hyperscale delivers outstanding performance and scalability through ...

Azure SQL Hyperscale is the latest architectural evolution of Azure SQL, which has been natively designed to take advantage of the cloud. One of the main key features of this new architecture is the complete separation of Compute Nodes and Storage Nodes. This allows for the independent scale of each service, making Hyperscale more flexible and ...