The cloud and automation go hand in hand. Use Azure Automation and runbooks to deploy and manage Azure infrastructure and platform services. One of the great advantages of using the public cloud is ...

If you are an old hand at Microsoft SQL Server, you have probably used the SQL Server Agent (i.e., SQL Agent) service and MSDB database for the last 20 years. With a humble and largely unchanged ...

Microsoft’s declarative REST and GraphQL API design tool supports MySQL and Postgres as well as Azure databases and works anywhere you can run a Docker container. Microsoft Azure is now so big it’s ...

Knowing how to automate tasks in the cloud will make you a more productive DBA. Here are the key concepts to understand about cloud scripting and a rundown of the best tools for automating code in ...

As of May 2026, Microsoft Copilot has evolved beyond drafting emails and summarizing meetings; it's now embedded as an autonomous agent platform capable of managing Azure resources, optimizing costs, ...