Learn how to use the Azure Portal to create a cloud-based SQL database with just a few mouse clicks.

You're now the owner of a shiny, new Azure SQL Database and, more importantly, the owner of an ARM template that allows you to create an additional database on a whim.

When you need a SQL database fast, the cloud is the best way to go. Azure provides a SQL database as a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that eliminates the need to get an entire SQL Server up and running.

However, it's somewhat limited in that it can only operate on Azure SQL Database. Elastic Jobs also requires you to create an Azure SQL Database to manage the jobs.

Azure Data Studio Notebooks also received updates, including: The ability to create or open Notebooks using an integrated Notebook viewer, which in the new release supports connecting to local kernels ...

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.

By using a single tool like PowerShell, you can access your data wherever it is stored. It does not matter if it is in the cloud in an Azure SQL database or in an on-premises MS-SQL server, MySQL or ...