Google on Wednesday announced Cloud SQL for Microsoft SQL Server, a fully-managed service that will come to Google Cloud Platform customers later this year.

Today it can reach into Cloud SQL (GCP's MySQL and PostgreSQL services) and Bigtable (the NoSQL database that was the inspiration for Hadoop's HBase).

At the end of July the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) team announced Cloud SQL for Microsoft SQL Server available in alpha.

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