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SQL Server Drill Down: Containers and the World of OS-Level Virtualization

If you haven’t been paying a lot of attention, you might have missed the rise of a new form of virtualization, based at the operating system level, called “containers.” While there are many specific ...
ZDNet

SQL Server 2019 reaches general availability

At its Ignite conference in Orlando today, Microsoft released a new version of its core relational database, SQL Server. The new version, SQL Server 2019, takes important capabilities in its previous ...
Virtualization Review

SQL Server Runs Faster on Azure Cloud VMs than AWS EC2, Report Says

A new report from research firm GigaOm indicated that SQL Server runs faster on virtual machines on Micrososft's Azure cloud than on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) compute instances (EC2). Sponsored by ...
Virtualization Review

Alpha Release of Cloud SQL for Microsoft SQL Server Now Available

At the end of July the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) team announced Cloud SQL for Microsoft SQL Server available in alpha. According to Google, Cloud SQL for Microsoft SQL Server will let enterprises ...