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March 2024

13 Mar

Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for mid-March 2024

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q1 2024

Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in mid-March 2024.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features

February 2024

28 Feb

Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for late-February 2024

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q1 2024

Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late-February 2024.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features
14 Feb

General availability: Azure SQL updates for mid-February 2024

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q1 2024

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in mid-February 2024.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features

January 2024

31 Jan

General availability: Azure SQL updates for late-January 2024

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q1 2024

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late-January 2024.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features
31 Jan

Public preview: Azure SQL updates for late-January 2024

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q1 2024

Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late-January 2024.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features

November 2023

15 Nov

General availability: Azure SQL Database Always Encrypted with virtualization-based security (VBS) enclaves

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q4 2023

VBS enclaves in Azure SQL Database brings the benefits of secure enclaves, rich confidential queries, and in-place cryptographic operations, to all Azure SQL Database offerings, independent from the underlying hardware.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
15 Nov

Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for mid-November 2023

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2023

Public Preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in mid-November 2023.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
15 Nov

General availability: Azure SQL updates for mid-November 2023

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q4 2023

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

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
15 Nov

General Availability: Lower pricing for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale expected in December 2023

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q4 2023

Build new and highly scalable applications on Azure SQL Database Hyperscale with lower pricing!

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
8 Nov

Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for early-November 2023

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2023

Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in early-November 2023.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features

October 2023

11 Oct

General availability: Azure SQL updates for early-October 2023

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q4 2023

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in early-October 2023.   

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features

September 2023

27 Sep

Public Preview: Azure SQL Database free offer

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q3 2023

Get one free serverless Azure SQL Database per subscription for the lifetime of the subscription.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features
27 Sep

General availability: Azure SQL updates for late-September 2023

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q3 2023

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

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features
13 Sep

General Availability: Azure SQL updates for mid-September 2023

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q3 2023

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

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features

August 2023

30 Aug

General availability: Azure SQL updates for late-August 2023

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q3 2023

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

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features
2 Aug

General availability: Azure SQL updates for early-August 2023 

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q3 2023

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in early-August 2023.

  • Azure SQL
  • Azure SQL Database
  • Azure SQL Managed Instance
  • Features
2 Aug

Public preview: Azure SQL updates for early-August 2023

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q3 2023

Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in early-August 2023

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Azure SQL Managed Instance
  • Azure SQL
  • Features

July 2023

25 Jul

Azure SQL—Public preview updates for mid-July 2023

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q3 2023

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

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features

June 2023

13 Jun

Azure SQL—General availability updates for mid-June 2023

NOW AVAILABLE

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

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Azure SQL Managed Instance
  • Features

May 2023

23 May

Public preview: Azure SQL Database Hyperscale elastic pools

You can now efficiently provision and scale compute resources independent of data size by deploying multiple Azure SQL Hyperscale databases with varying workloads in elastic pools.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features

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