PostgreSQL leads in developer popularity in 2026 and offers advanced features for complex workloads. MySQL remains widely adopted, stable, and strong in traditional web and enterprise environments.

Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform suffered a broad multi-hour outage beginning on Monday evening, disrupting two critical layers of enterprise cloud operations. The outage, which lasted over 10 hours, ...

Microsoft’s MSFT1.07%increase; green up pointing triangle earnings surge failed to energize investors on Wednesday as it reported higher-than-expected spending on data centers and other AI ...

Microsoft has announced a new January 2026 update for Microsoft Azure Database for MySQL (Flexible Server), continuing its broader push toward tighter Azure monitoring and platform standardization. As ...

Learn how to use PostgreSQL + PGVector as a smarter, more contextual retrieval engine for GenAI apps Discover best practices for embedding storage, indexing, and relevance scoring in Azure Database ...

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Microsoft used Ignite 2025 to push Azure Cosmos DB further into AI search and agentic workflows, highlighting new capabilities aimed at developers building retrieval-heavy applications and multi-agent ...

Microsoft unveiled Azure HorizonDB at the Ignite conference, a new fully managed, scalable, and high-throughput PostgreSQL cloud database in private preview. At the Ignite conference, Microsoft today ...

Microsoft Corp. today is introducing updates across its database portfolio as part of general availability announcements for Azure DocumentDB and SQL Server 2025. The software and cloud giant is also ...

A massive 4TB SQL Server backup file belonging to global accounting giant Ernst & Young (EY) was discovered publicly accessible on Microsoft Azure. The exposure, uncovered by cybersecurity firm Neo ...

Microsoft Corp. is still suffering from a computing capacity crunch despite massive spending on data centers, a scenario that weighed on the company’s closely watched Azure cloud unit. During the ...

Microsoft Corp.’s data-center crunch will continue for longer than the company has previously outlined, underscoring the software giant’s struggles to keep up with cloud demand. Many of Microsoft’s US ...