Microsoft has released the first CTP of its SQL Server Hosting Toolkit. This toolkit is designed to provide support for companies using a hosted SQL Server.

As part of the SQL Server 2016 launch event, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced a commercial database promotion that provides customers with free licenses if you are running a competitor’s ...

The San Jose, Calif.-based hosted services and software-as-a-service provider added Microsoft Corp.’s MS-SQL Server 2005 to its Concentric Windows Pro and Enterprise Plans Hosted services ...

Amazon takes its RDS out of beta, offers Oracle and SQL Server hosting To fend off Google's Cloud SQL, RDS adds multi-zone replication, 99.95% uptime.

With end of support looming for Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008, Microsoft has a new option for those users to keep getting security updates: By moving workloads to Azure.