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When it comes to mission-critical systems and databases, we all know that we need to plan for disaster. It's not the most exciting work; there's often little reward even when it's well done, and the ...

At the Ignite conference today, Microsoft made a series of announcements about Azure databases. It announced a brand-new Azure database called HorizonDB, which is a fully managed PostgreSQL database ...