Fabric is both a nod to customers trying to tighten their belts and also to the multi-cloud database tools such as Snowflake and Databricks that threaten Microsoft's established database franchise.

The best database software makes it simple and easy to make the building and managing of your databases better. There are many different options, all of which allow for the retrieval of datasets ...

Microsoft has decided to initially use technology from its WinFS project in the SQL Server database, rather than Windows. Quentin Clark, who runs the WinFS program management team, disclosed the ...