Microsoft today released the 2022 version of its SQL Server database, which features a number of built-in connections to its Azure cloud.

Windows hosting services can host your websites and apps on dedicated Microsoft technologies like ASP.NET or .NET. In fact, they can even run different products like Exchange or Microsoft SQL Server.

Microsoft has released the first CTP of its SQL Server Hosting Toolkit. This toolkit is designed to provide support for companies using a hosted SQL Server.

Amazon takes its RDS out of beta, offers Oracle and SQL Server hosting To fend off Google's Cloud SQL, RDS adds multi-zone replication, 99.95% uptime.