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Monthly updates for Azure SQL Database: March 2021
Public preview: Zone-redundant configuration for Azure SQL Database serverless compute tier
Make your serverless Azure SQL databases resilient to a much larger set of failures, including catastrophic data centre outages, without any changes of the application logic by selecting zone redundancy.
Service Broker message exchange for Azure SQL Managed Instance in public preview
Service Broker message exchange between Azure SQL Managed Instances (public preview) allows you to build reliable distributed applications with asynchronous message processing functionality by leveraging SQL Server engine’s native support for messaging/queuing.
Machine Learning Services on Azure SQL Managed Instance now generally available
Use machine learning capabilities on a Managed Instance of Azure SQL Database for ease of moving your data, packages, and models to a cloud ready environment fully configured for machine learning.
General availability: Dynamic data masking granular permissions for Azure SQL and Azure Synapse Analytics
Control who can access your SQL data by using the dynamic data masking granular permission on your Azure SQL Database, Azure Synapse Analytics and Azure SQL Managed Instance.
Azure Monitor SQL insights for Azure SQL in public preview
Get a single monitoring experience for all your cloud-based SQL deployments with Azure Monitor SQL insights
Long-term backup retention (LTR) for Azure SQL Managed Instance in public preview
Configure long-term backup retention for SQL Managed Instance databases and retain database backups beyond the 35 days provided by Azure SQL Managed Instance automated backups, for up to 10 years.
Azure SQL auditing to Log Analytics and Event Hub are now generally available
Auditing for Azure SQL Database and Azure Synapse Analytics to Log Analytics and Event Hub are now generally available, allowing the centralization of SQL audit logs into a single go-to-location.
Azure SQL auditing of Microsoft operations is now in general availability
Azure SQL auditing of Microsoft operations for Azure SQL Database, Azure Synapse Analytics and Azure SQL Managed Instance is now generally available, enabling more transparency into your workforce.
Public preview: Maintenance window for Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance
The maintenance window feature aligns planned maintenance updates on Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance resources to occur on predictable times during regional off-business hours.
Advance notifications for Azure SQL Database now in public preview
Prepare for planned maintenance events on your Azure SQL Database resources and minimize the impact of database failovers on your sensitive workloads with advance notifications (preview).
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