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SQL SERVER DRILL DOWN
Microsoft is on the march with multiple upgrades and improvements across the span of its cloud data products. Here are a few of the more prominent highlights.
Azure Elastic Database Jobs Now in Public Preview
If you've been waiting to move your SQL Server workloads into the Azure cloud, it is time to celebrate. Microsoft is making Azure SQL Databases one very big step closer to feature parity with on-premise SQL Server. The new release of Azure Elastic Database Jobs is a significant upgrade. Elastic Database Jobs is your Azure replacement for SQL Agent, enabling you to schedule and run T-SQL scripts across a large number of databases in parallel. Elastic Database Jobs is a service that supports any combination of database targets, including all the databases on a server, in an elastic pool, singleton databases, and across multiple servers, multiple pools, and different subscriptions, with the added ability to exclude any that you choose.
Unlike the earlier release, which was customer-hosted, this release is a fully integrated Azure service requiring no additional services or components. It also adds many features to ease automation of T-SQL jobs using PowerShell, REST, or...