Blob storage is particularly useful for storing media, large file backups, and data logs. But it can be used for anything — even files that might typically go into a more hierarchical database. What is object storage? Blob storage is a type of object storage. Object storage keeps files ...
Using Data Share, a data provider can share data and manage their shares all in one place. They can stay in control of how their data is handled by specifying terms of use for their data share. The data consumer must accept these terms before being able to receive the data. Data provide...
A data lake is a low-cost data storage environment designed to handle massive amounts of raw data in any format.
Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server now allows triggering an on-demand server backup and exporting it to an Azure storage account (Azure blob storage). The feature is currently in public preview and available only in public cloud regions. Learn more Known Issues While attempting to enable...
evaluate the health of the primary replica. The quorum for Always On availability groups is based on all nodes in the WSFC cluster regardless of whether a given cluster node hosts any availability replicas. In contrast to database mirroring, there's no witness role in Always On availability ...
Data storage management is a common function of the RDBMS, and this has come to be defined by data objects that range from binary large object -- or blob -- strings to stored procedures. Data objects like this extend the scope of basic relational database operations and can be handled i...
November 2024 Workspace monitoring Workspace monitoring is a Microsoft Fabric database that collects data from a range of Fabric items in your workspace, and lets users access and analyze logs and metrics. For more about this feature, see Announcing preview of workspace monitoring. November 2024 One...
Azure SQL Managed Instance is a scalable cloud database service that's always running on the latest stable version of the Microsoft SQL Server database engine and a patched OS with 99.99% built-in high availability, offering close to 100% feature compatibility with SQL Server. PaaS capabilities...
Azure Analysis Services uses Azure Blob storage to persist storage and metadata for Analysis Services databases. Data files within Blob are encrypted using Azure Blob Server Side Encryption (SSE). When you use Direct Query mode, only metadata is stored. The actual data is accessed through encrypted...
Database management systems A database management system (DBMS) is the primary technology used to deploy and administer databases. It's software that acts as an interface between databases and the DBAs, end users and applications that access them. The most prevalent type of DBMS is the relationa...