Coauthored by Jared Meade and Teneil Lawrence For teams running transaction-intensive applications, database performance is rarely about a single specification. More vCores can help, but compute is...

In Smarter Storage for Azure HorizonDB, we described how HorizonDB moves durability, replication, checkpointing, and recovery out of PostgreSQL and into a purpose-built storage layer. The compute nod...

A support engineer hits a fault. Somebody solved the same fault two years ago, wrote down what fixed it, and closed the ticket. The engineer searches, finds nothing, and works it out from scratch. Th...

Coding agents can write SQL, troubleshoot applications, and reason about data. Useful database work starts with your schema and environment context.  We are pleased to announce that Microsoft has o...

By Varun Dhawan,  Matt McFarland, Erdem Tuna from Microsoft PostgreSQL team Azure Database for PostgreSQL support in Database Hub is now in public preview, bringing fleet visibility, security p...

Fleet operators rarely search with a single kind of question. Sometimes they know exactly what they want: delayed shipments, within a certain radius of a location, arriving in a given window. Other t...

For a few years now, people have been predicting the end of software engineering as a profession. Matt Welsh argued in Communications of the ACM in 2023 that the conventional idea of writing a progra...

Introduction Database Change Management (DCM) is a comprehensive process of managing all changes to the database schema, objects, reference data, and code over the lifetime of an application. It en...

1. The Investigation A thorough investigation led to the following observations: CPU remained saturated. The server ran at 100% CPU throughout the benchmark, while wait samples showed that most...

Modern application development increasingly relies on AI agents to generate code, configure services, and accelerate delivery. But generic agents often stop at plausible SQL or broad recommendations....