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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As agent-based AI systems grow more sophisticated, developers are moving well beyond basic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) into a new era of autonomous, tool-integrated, and multi-agent ...

Databricks and Snowflake are at it again, and the battleground is now SQL-based document parsing. In an intensifying race to dominate enterprise AI workloads with agent-driven automation, Databricks ...

Managing SQL Server across hybrid and multi-cloud environments has long posed a challenge for database administrators. With data sprawled across on-premises infrastructure, cloud platforms, and edge ...

Who needs rewrites? This metadata-powered architecture fuses AI and ETL so smoothly, it turns pipelines into self-evolving engines of insight. In the fast-evolving landscape of enterprise data ...

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

Microsoft has rolled out a redesigned continuous migration assessment tool for SQL Server enabled by Azure Arc. The new experience is now generally available and brings a more streamlined, ...

Databricks and Microsoft are sticking together for the long run. The two companies have announced an early extension of their partnership, doubling down on a shared goal. Both will help businesses get ...

Databricks, known for secure data storage and AI, has launched a new AI business intelligence dashboard called Databricks One, designed for nontechnical business users across various departments.

Today, at its annual Data + AI Summit, Databricks announced that it is open-sourcing its core declarative ETL framework as Apache Spark Declarative Pipelines, making it available to the entire Apache ...

SAP today announced a substantial upgrade to its enterprise-wide data management offerings and strategy. Called SAP Business Data Cloud, the new offering is a managed software-as-a-service (SaaS) that ...