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Azure SQL—General availability updates for December 2021
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL for December 2021.
November 2021
Azure SQL—Public preview updates for mid-November 2021
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL Managed Instance for mid-November 2021.
Azure SQL—General availability updates for mid-November 2021
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL Managed Instance for mid-November 2021.
Azure SQL—general availability updates for early November 2021
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL Managed Instance in early November 2021.
Azure SQL: Public preview updates for early November 2021
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL Managed Instance in mid-September 2021.
Public preview updates to Azure SQL Managed Instance boosts performance, scale, and flexibility
New investments in Azure SQL Managed Instance bring more performance, scale, and flexibility to your SQL workloads in this latest significant update to the service.
Link feature in Azure SQL Managed Instance now in limited public preview
The link feature in SQL Managed Instance reimagines SQL Server database replication to enable application migration with minimal downtime and offloading read-only workloads to secondaries in the cloud.
October 2021
New centralized management experience for Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server in public preview
Introducing a new way to manage Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server centrally at an Azure subscription or account level, providing better control and optimized cost savings.
September 2021
Azure SQL Database: General availability updates for late September 2021
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late September 2021.
Azure SQL—General availability updates for mid-September 2021
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL Managed Instance in mid-September 2021.
Azure SQL Migration extension in Azure Data Studio in public preview
Migrate SQL Server to Azure SQL using Azure Data Studio (preview) for a modern open-source, cross-platform, and hybrid unifying tooling experience for data operations across SQL Server and Azure databases.
Azure SQL - General availability updates for early September 2021
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL Managed Instance in early September 2021.
Azure SQL - Public preview updates for early September 2021
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL Managed Instance in early September 2021.
August 2021
Azure SQL—public preview updates for early August 2021
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL Managed Instance in early August 2021.
Azure SQL—general availability updates for early August 2021
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL Managed Instance in early August 2021.
July 2021
Confidential computing using Always Encrypted with secure enclaves for Azure SQL Database in general availability
Always Encrypted with secure enclaves helps prevent malicious admins and malware from exfiltrating sensitive data, while enabling in-place encryption and rich confidential computations, including pattern matching, range comparisons, and sorting.
June 2021
Azure SQL—public preview updates for late June 2021
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late June 2021.
Azure SQL—general availability updates for late June 2021
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late June 2021
Azure SQL: Public preview updates for early June 2021
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in early June 2021
Azure SQL: General availability updates for early June 2021
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in early June 2021
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