Understanding and leveraging Azure SQL Database’s SLA
31 July 2019
When data is the lifeblood of your business, you want to ensure your databases are reliable, secure, and available when called upon to perform.
31 July 2019
When data is the lifeblood of your business, you want to ensure your databases are reliable, secure, and available when called upon to perform.
04 April 2018
The preview for long-term backup retention in Azure SQL Database was announced in October 2016, providing you with a way to easily enable long-term retention for your databases…
04 April 2018
We’re excited to announce the preview of an additional purchasing model to the Azure SQL Database Elastic Pool and Single Database deployment options. Recently announced with SQL Database Managed…
07 March 2018
The Premium service tier includes multiple redundant replicas for each database that are automatically provisioned in the same data centre. This design leverages the SQL Server AlwaysON technology and…
11 May 2017
The built-in geo-replication feature has been generally available to SQL Database customers since 2014. During this time one of the most common customer requests has been about supporting transparent failover with automatic activation. Today we are happy to announce a public preview of auto-failover groups that extends geo-replication with the following additional capabilities:
31 October 2016
Azure SQL Database now supports backups stored in your own Azure Backup Service Vault. This allows you easily extend the built-it retention period from 35 days to up to 10 years.
25 April 2016
The built-in active geo-replication has been generally available to the Premium databases for over a year. As a growing number of SaaS customers use the multi-tenant design pattern, including the use…
10 November 2015
Today we are announcing a set of new geo-replication enhancements that both address customer pain points and enable new capabilities for customers.