A solid database backup plan is just as critical in the cloud as it is on-premise, but running SQL Server on Azure virtual machine introduces a few new issues. Presented by Datavail's Andy McDermid ...

SQL Server has long supported backing up databases to Azure Blob Storage, but now supports backup and restore to and from S3 (this can be in AWS or to your own S3 storage).

The Microsoft OLE DB Provider is an SQL tool that enables developers to write code that provides an application with ADO access to an SQL database.