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April 2023

Apr 26

General Availability: Centrally Managed Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server

NOW AVAILABLE

Today, we’re officially announcing the general availability for Centrally Managed Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server.

  • Microsoft Cost Management
  • SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
  • Pricing & Offerings

November 2022

Nov 16

General availability: DR secondary free with SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines

NOW AVAILABLE

Optimize business costs by licensing your Disaster Recovery secondary for free with SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines.

  • SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Features

October 2022

Oct 12

General availability: Confidential VM option for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines

NOW AVAILABLE

Run your SQL Server workloads on the latest AMD-backed confidential virtual machines, ensuring protection of data in use.

  • SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
  • Services
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Features
  • Security

March 2022

Mar 16

Generally available: Best practices assessment for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines

NOW AVAILABLE

Evaluate SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines for configuration best practices using the SQL best practices assessment feature on the SQL virtual machine blade in the Azure portal.

  • SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
  • Features

February 2022

Feb 2

General availability: Enhanced storage configuration with tempdb

NOW AVAILABLE

Manage your SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machine storage configuration with tempdb directly from the SQL virtual machine blade in the Azure portal.

  • SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
  • Features
Feb 2

General availability: Deployment enhancements for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines

NOW AVAILABLE

Deploy SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines with a setup-like experience where configuration of the instance is done during deployment of the Azure Marketplace image.

  • SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
  • Features
Feb 2

General availability: Automated backup enhancements for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines

NOW AVAILABLE

The Automated backup feature on SQL Server for Azure Virtual Machines blade comes with the ability for increased retention and better manageability with your choice of storage container per instance.

  • SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
  • Management
  • Features

December 2021

Dec 1

IaaS Agent extension full mode no restart for SQL VMs generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

SQL Server IaaS Agent extension can now be upgraded to full mode from lightweight mode without any service disruptions.

  • SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
  • Features
Dec 1

SQL Server IaaS Agent extension for Linux SQL VMs generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

SQL Server IaaS Agent extension license management capabilities are now available for Ubuntu Linux virtual machines.

  • SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
  • Features

November 2021

Nov 10

SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines: Multi subnet high availability generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Configure high availability and disaster recovery for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines using multiple subnets that’s easier and natively supported by SQL Server.

  • SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
  • Features

August 2021

Aug 4

Azure Defender for SQL now in general availability on the Azure SQL Virtual Machine blade

NOW AVAILABLE

Configure Azure Defender to view and manage your security concerns for SQL Server on Azure virtual machines.

  • SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
  • Compliance
  • Management
  • Features

November 2020

Nov 11

SQL Server Reporting Services Virtual Machine images now available

NOW AVAILABLE

Migrate SQL Server Reporting Services workloads into Azure using pre-configured VM images to enable easier workload management, more efficient onboarding to the cloud, and leverage benefits by selecting preconfigured images.

  • SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
  • Management
  • Features
Nov 10

SQL Server Analysis Services Virtual Machine images now available

NOW AVAILABLE

SQL Server Analysis Services Virtual Machine images (in general availability) can help make your workloads more efficient, enable an easier onboarding experience, and helps viewing your different virtual machine workloads and managing them.

  • SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
  • Management
  • Features
Nov 4

Azure Backup—Soft delete for SQL Server and SAP HANA running in Azure VM

NOW AVAILABLE

Soft Delete for Azure Backup for SQL and SAP HANA in Azure Virtual Machines is now generally available.

  • Azure Backup
  • SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
  • Features

October 2020

Oct 28

Register Your Azure SQL Virtual Machines with SQL Server IaaS Agent extension today

NOW AVAILABLE

By simply checking a box, you can automatically register all existing and future SQL Server VMs in your subscription to access features designed to enable cost savings and increase manageability.

  • SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
  • Management
  • Features
Oct 14

SQL Server on Virtual Machines: Machine Learning with Microsoft R Open 4.0.2 now available

NOW AVAILABLE

The latest update for Microsoft R Open 4.0.2 (downloadable for Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms) includes improvement to the performance of the merge function and adds an option to better handle zero-length arguments to the paste and paste0 functions.

  • SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
  • Management
  • Open Source
  • Features

September 2020

Sep 2

Public preview: Automated deployment of Always On availability groups through the Azure portal

IN PREVIEW

Simplify configuring Always On availability groups and improve availability for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines

  • SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
  • Management
  • Features

July 2020

Jul 8

Distributed network name for SQL Server on Virtual Machines is now available

NOW AVAILABLE

Support for distributed network name (DNN) for SQL Server failover cluster instance (SQL FCI) on Azure IaaS with SQL Server 2019 CU2 and higher is now available.

  • SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
  • Features
Jul 8

Preview support for Azure Shared Disks for SQL Server failover cluster instance on Azure IaaS is now available

IN PREVIEW

Preview support is now available for Azure Shared Disks for SQL Server failover cluster instance (SQL FCI) on Azure IaaS with SQL Server 2019 on Windows Server 2019 and higher.

  • SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
  • Features

April 2020

Apr 15

SQL Server 2019 IaaS images with Linux distribution support now available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Marketplace pay-as-you-go images for SQL Server 2019 on RHEL 8.0, Ubuntu 18.04, and SLES 12 SP5 are now generally available.

  • SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
  • Features

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