Microsoft on Tuesday announced the "general availability" (GA) commercial release of the Flexible Server deployment option for the Azure Database for PostgreSQL service. Flexible Server is currently ...

While Microsoft’s big Azure database news today is the launch of Cosmos DB, its new “planet-scale” distributed database service, there is a good chance that many developers will actually be more ...

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A team of researchers found two vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server that when chained together allowed them to access the PostgreSQL databases of other cloud tenants. The ...

Azures collection of open source data tools includes the popular PostgreSQL database. Postgres began its life in the mid-1980s as a follow-up to the University of California at Berkeley’s Ingres ...

Microsoft has unveiled new capabilities and service tiers in the Azure database space, including Hyperscale for PostgreSQL, APIs for Apache Spark and etcd, and online migrations for Oracle databases.

With the March update of Azure Data Studio, Microsoft added preview support of the popular PostgreSQL database, along with a new PostgreSQL extension for the Visual Studio Code editor. The push for ...

Microsoft today announced that it has acquired Citus Data, a company specializing in PostgreSQL database technology. The Redmond giant has seen acquisitions as a way to bring in more talent, as well ...

(L to Ri:) Sudhakar Sannakkayala, General Manager Open Source Relational Databases, Microsoft; Ozgun Erdogan, CTO and Co-Founder, Citus Data; Umur Cubukcu, CEO and Co-Founder, Citus Data; Sumedh ...

Adding to its open source bona fides, Microsoft today announced the acquisition of PostgreSQL database provider Citus Data for an undisclosed sum. Given that Microsoft already offers a managed ...