New Azure SQL Learning Tools help reduce the global technology skills gap

By Dustin Ward

Microsoft’s learning solutions pave the way toward data-centric jobs of the future “It’s been forecasted 800 million people need to learn new skills for their jobs by 2030. In this time of change, people are hungry to learn, gain new skills, and grow their economic opportunity.”—Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft Across Microsoft, we are helping a…

No downtime indexing updates in Azure Cosmos DB

By Dustin Ward

You can now confidently make indexing changes without fear of impacting existing reads and writes. Before this change, write performance was unaffected during index updates but query results were not consistent while the index transformation was ongoing.