User-initiated failover for application fault resiliency in Azure SQL Managed Instance is now generally available
Published date: 02 September, 2020
High availability is a fundamental part of the SQL Managed Instance platform; it is important to perform end-to-end testing of your database applications for fault resiliency in case of planned or unplanned events before deploying to production. To enhance your testing capabilities, user-initiated failover is now generally available, providing you with the capability to manually initiate an automatic failover using PowerShell, CLI commands and API calls.