Recently, Microsoft announced the preview of serverless for Hyperscale in the Azure SQL Database, which brings together the benefits of serverless and Hyperscale into a single database solution.

U-SQL is a variant of the Structured Query Language -- combining declarative SQL with imperative C# -- designed to help developers efficiently analyze data in various relational stores, including ...

Serverless is a compute tier for single databases in Azure SQL Database that automatically scales compute based on workload demand and bills for the amount of compute used per second.

As part of this update, TimeXtender is also introducing support for the Azure SQL Database serverless compute option. The auto-scaling capabilities of serverless is a strong fit for Discovery Hub ...

However, Azure SQL Database Serverless will pause when there is no activity and resume when activity returns. You are only billed for the time that the database is in use.

Azure SQL Data Warehouse Azure SQL Data Warehouse keeps getting better. It now has several new features, such as Result-set Caching, Materialized Views, and support for sorted columnstore indexes.

Microsoft is making available a new 'serverless compute' service, called Azure Functions, and is making its Platform-as-a-service offering, Azure Service Fabric, generally available.