Name: Azure SQL Database
Rating: 4.5 (339 reviews)

Overview

Product Information on Azure SQL Database

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Azure SQL Database?

Azure SQL Database is a cloud-based relational database software designed to support transactional processing and analytics. It provides features such as automated backups, scalability, high availability, security controls, and built-in intelligence for performance tuning and threat detection. The software enables management of structured data with support for Transact-SQL programming and integration with other Azure services. It addresses business needs around data storage, high availability, disaster recovery, and operational efficiency by offering elastic scalability and maintenance automation, thereby allowing organizations to manage and analyze data applications in a cloud environment.

Overall experience with Azure SQL Database

Infrastructure Sevice Team

500M - 1B USD, Transportation

FAVORABLE

“Sql tenant at Microsoft - a DB tenant to relay on. ”

4.0

Aug 22, 2022

SQL tenant at Azure is a great product and an exceptional launch by microsoft.

INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGER

250M - 500M USD, Consumer Goods

CRITICAL

“A very reliable SaaS database solution.”

3.0

Feb 27, 2023

Azure SQL Server has been a reliable alternative database solution which gives us more flexibility than traditional on site databases.

About Company

Company Description

Microsoft enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Microsoft is dedicated to advancing human and organizational achievement. Microsoft Security helps protect people and data against cyberthreats to give peace of mind.

Company Details

Company type

Public

Year Founded

1975

Head office location

Redmond, Washington, United States

Number of employees

10000+

Annual Revenue

30B+ USD

Website

https://microsoft.com

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Deciding Factors: Azure SQL Database Vs. Market Average

Performance of Azure SQL Database Across Market Features

Azure SQL Database Likes & Dislikes

truly exceptional speed query redesign database performance

Reliability, ease of creation and quick scaling.

security features, scalability, ease of implementation and administration

nothing specific.

Lacking some advanced tool that you get with on premise SQL.

integration into existing solutions

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50M-1B USD

Consumer Goods

Review Source

A very reliable SaaS database solution.

Transportation

Sql tenant at Microsoft - a DB tenant to relay on.

IT ARCHITECT

1B-10B USD

Insurance (except health)

easy to implement a scalable database product

Jul 15, 2022

easy to implement, very good scalability and available security features

CIO

Adoption and migration to Azure SQL relatively painless

5.0

Jun 15, 2022

We went with MS SQL server as it meets the needs of our business, both from an application support and connectivity perspective, and also from a knowledge perspective.

CHIEF SYSTEMS

Retail

The scalability of Azure is what companies need the dinamic of your data.

May 29, 2022

Do not depend on a physical server, Azure offers you the solution, it is one of the best cloud services for SQL management you get many benefits whit this service, its latency is excellent.