Microsoft Makes SQL Server on Azure Local Generally Available

SQL Server on Azure Local is generally available. Review disconnected deployment requirements, separate licensing, and ...

Google Cloud Brings Native BM25 Full-Text Search to AlloyDB and Cloud SQL via Tiger Data's pg_textsearch

Tiger Data, the creators of TimescaleDB, today announced that its open-source BM25 search engine, pg_textsearch, is now supported natively in Google Cloud’s AlloyDB and Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL ...
cloud

Announcing Native BM25 Ranking in AlloyDB and Cloud SQL

A native BM25 index in AlloyDB and Cloud SQL provides full-text retrieval without having to provision, manage, or pay for separate systems.
techtarget

Microsoft SQL Server 2022 bridges on-premises to cloud

Microsoft SQL Server 2022 is generally available today, marking the first major update for Microsoft's longstanding on-premises database technology in three years. A key theme of the Microsoft SQL ...
CRN

Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems

From AWS, Google and Oracle to Databricks, IBM and Snowflake, here are the top 16 vendors leading the cloud database management systems market, according to Gartner’s new Magic Quadrant. Gartner’s Top ...
ZDNet

Microsoft cloud to SQL Server: let’s have an open (source) relationship

“It’s really about choice,” Rohan Kumar, Microsoft’s General Manager, Database Systems, told me yesterday as he briefed me on the new offerings. Kumar further explained: “if you’re a developer, you ...