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General availability: Azure Virtual Network service endpoints for Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Azure Virtual Network service endpoints for Azure SQL Data Warehouse is now generally available in all Azure regions.
Smaller SKUs for Azure SQL Data Warehouse Gen2
Smaller SKUs for Azure SQL Data Warehouse Gen2
November 2018
Additional workload insights for advanced performance tuning with SQL Data Warehouse
Azure Advisor and Azure Monitor are configured by default for SQL Data Warehouse to automatically deliver workload insights to you at no additional cost. We have now enhanced this experience.
Azure Monitor log support for Azure SQL Data Warehouse
SQL Data Warehouse now enables enhanced insights into analytical workloads by integrating directly with Azure Monitor diagnostic logs.
General availability: Row-level security (RLS) for Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Row-level security (RLS) for Azure SQL Data Warehouse, a new capability that can help you manage security for sensitive data, is now generally available.
October 2018
September 2018
Stream Analytics: Parallel SQL write operations
To achieve fully parallel topologies, Azure Stream Analytics will transition SQL writes from serial to parallel operations while simultaneously allowing for batch size customizations.
Azure SQL Data Warehouse streaming support in Azure Databricks.
Azure SQL Data Warehouse connector now offers efficient and scalable structured streaming write support for SQL Data Warehouse.
SQL Data Warehouse now offers flexible restore points
SQL Data Warehouse is a fast, flexible and secure analytics platform. It now provides user-defined restore points, enabling you to initiate snapshots before and after significant operations on your data warehouse.
SQL Data Warehouse intelligent insights
Get intelligent insights to ensure that your data warehouse is consistently optimised for performance with SQL Data Warehouse intelligent insights.
SQL Data Warehouse Vulnerability Assessment
SQL Vulnerability Assessment is an easy-to-use service that continually monitors your database or data warehouse, ensuring that they are maintained at a high level of security at all times and that your organisational policies are met.
SQL Data Warehouse: User-defined maintenance scheduling
Azure SQL Data Warehouse maintenance scheduling is now in preview. This is a new feature that seamlessly integrates the Azure Service Health planned maintenance notifications with Resource Health monitor services.
New SQL Data Warehouse performance tier SKU
The industry-leading query performance of the compute-optimised Gen2 tier of SQL Data Warehouse is now accessible to more customers through a new, smaller SKU, 500DWc. With this release, get started with a powerful data warehouse in the cloud for as low as USD 7.56/hour (in the US East region – price varies by region).
SQL Data Warehouse now available in Government Cloud
Azure SQL Data Warehouse Gen2 is now available in government cloud
Azure SQL Data Warehouse enables streaming solutions with Azure Databricks
Azure SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW) customers can build near real-time analytics solutions with tighter integration with Azure Databricks.
August 2018
Automatic recommendations help optimize performance with SQL Data Warehouse
Automatic intelligent insights to optimize performance with SQL Data Warehouse
July 2018
Accelerated and flexible restore points for Azure SQL Data Warehouse
SQL Data Warehouse has released accelerated and flexible restore points for fast data recovery.
Public preview: Azure SQL Data Warehouse extension for SQL Operations Studio
The Azure SQL Data Warehouse extension for SQL Operations Studio is in preview.
June 2018
Column-level security is now supported in Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Azure SQL Data Warehouse supports column-level security.
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