AzureOct 30, 2026

Is Azure SQL Database Hyperscale “distributed SQL”?

In my last post, I broke down the Socrates paper, the research that became Azure SQL Database Hyperscale. Writing it made me want to tackle a question I think trips a lot of people up when they’re choosing a database: is Azure SQL Database Hyperscale “distributed SQL”? It’s a fair question. “Distributed SQL” has becom…

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