The revamped Cloud SQL service updates to a more recent version of MySQL, but sticks with its mission of making no-maintenance databases With the general availability of Google Cloud Platform’s latest ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Google's decision to offer Microsoft SQL Server as a managed service is designed to attract customers with certain Windows workloads, and adds to Google Cloud Platform's overall ...

After two-and-a-half years in preview, Google’s Cloud SQL, the company’s fully managed MySQL database service, has now hit general availability. As with most Google services that hit this milestone, ...

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Google’s first attempt at MySQL as a service, Cloud SQL, launched in 2011, was somewhat of a disappointment from the standpoint of performance and scalability. Cloud SQL Second Generation, which was ...

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It’s not every day that you read a headline with both Google and Microsoft. Google is announcing today that its managed database service Cloud SQL will soon support Microsoft SQL Server. The company ...

IT teams deploy cloud database services to hand off some of the management and operations tasks to a service provider so they can focus on actually putting that data to use. Cloud databases can also ...

Google Cloud's Spanner queues are now GA, bringing transactional messaging to AI agents with atomic operations and exactly-once processing.