Microsoft Corp. today announced a slew of new services and updates to its Azure public cloud platform designed to make it easier for users to migrate database workloads to its cloud data centers.

Microsoft this week announced the commercial availability of Azure Database services for both MySQL and PostgreSQL. The two open source database management systems reached "general availability" ...

While Microsoft’s big Azure database news today is the launch of Cosmos DB, its new “planet-scale” distributed database service, there is a good chance that many developers will actually be more ...

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Microsoft has unveiled new capabilities and service tiers in the Azure database space, including Hyperscale for PostgreSQL, APIs for Apache Spark and etcd, and online migrations for Oracle databases.