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May 2023

10 May

Azure SQL—Public preview updates for early-May 2023

IN PREVIEW

Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in mid-May 2023

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features

April 2023

26 Apr

Azure SQL—General availability updates for late-April 2023 

NOW AVAILABLE

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL and Azure SQL Managed Instance in late-April 2023

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Azure SQL Managed Instance
  • Features
21 Apr

Support has ended for Gen 4 hardware on Azure SQL Database

Target retirement date: March 31, 2023

Gen 4 hardware on Azure SQL Database is no longer supported, effective March 31, 2023. Databases may remain on Gen 4 configurations, albeit with limitations.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Retirements
12 Apr

Azure SQL—General availability updates for mid-April 2023

NOW AVAILABLE

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL for mid-April 2023

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features
12 Apr

Azure SQL—Public preview updates for mid-April 2023

IN PREVIEW

Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in mid-April 2023

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features

March 2023

29 Mar

Azure SQL—General availability updates for late-March 2023

NOW AVAILABLE

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late-March 2023

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features
29 Mar

General availability: Microsoft Purview DevOps policies for Azure SQL Database

NOW AVAILABLE

Purview DevOps policies can be used to assign permissions needed for performance monitoring and security auditing at scale and without direct connection to the database.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features
16 Mar

Azure SQL—General availability updates for mid-March 2023

NOW AVAILABLE

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in mid-March 2023

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features
15 Mar

Public preview: Data API builder instantly creates modern REST and GraphQL endpoints for modern databases

IN PREVIEW

Improve development velocity and efficiency via modern REST and GraphQL API using the new data API builder with support for multiple Azure databases.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Azure Database for MySQL
  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features
15 Mar

Azure SQL—Public preview updates for mid-March 2023

IN PREVIEW

Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in mid-March 2023

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Azure SQL Managed Instance
  • Features
1 Mar

Azure SQL—General availability updates for early March 2023

NOW AVAILABLE

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in early March 2023

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features

February 2023

15 Feb

Public preview: Serverless Hyperscale in Azure SQL Database

IN PREVIEW

Automatically scale compute based on workload demand using serverless for Hyperscale in Azure SQL Database.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features
15 Feb

Public preview: VBS enclaves for Always Encrypted in Azure SQL Database

IN PREVIEW

VBS enclaves enable you with the flexibility to use Always Encrypted with secure enclaves in all Azure SQL Database offerings.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Management
  • Features
  • Security
15 Feb

Azure SQL—General availability updates for mid-February 2023

NOW AVAILABLE

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in mid-February 20223

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Azure SQL Managed Instance
  • Features

December 2022

14 Dec

Azure SQL—General availability updates for mid-December 2022

NOW AVAILABLE

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in mid-December 2022.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features

November 2022

30 Nov

Azure SQL—Public preview updates for late November 2022

IN PREVIEW

Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late November 2022.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features
30 Nov

Azure SQL—General availability updates for late November 2022

NOW AVAILABLE

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late November 2022.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features
30 Nov

General availability: 12 months free services for new Azure PAYG customers

NOW AVAILABLE

With an Azure free account, you can explore with free amounts of 55+ always free services.

  • Media Services
  • Azure Container Registry
  • Service Bus
  • Load Balancer
  • Virtual Machines
  • Key Vault
  • Azure SQL Database
  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Azure Database for MySQL
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Azure Files
  • Azure AI services
  • Azure AI Vision
  • Services
  • Security
30 Nov

Public preview: Premium series hardware for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2022

Leverage new premium-series hardware based on the latest Intel CPUs that offers significantly improved performance and scalability on Azure SQL Database Hyperscale.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features
16 Nov

Generally available: Azure Synapse Link for SQL

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Synapse Link for SQL enables seamless near-real-time data movement from relational sources in Azure SQL Database and SQL Server 2022 to analytical stores without needing to build ETL pipelines.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features

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