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September 2018

Sep 6

SQL Data Warehouse now available in Government Cloud

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure SQL Data Warehouse Gen2 is now available in government cloud

  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
Sep 6

Azure SQL Data Warehouse enables streaming solutions with Azure Databricks

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW) customers can build near real-time analytics solutions with tighter integration with Azure Databricks.

  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Azure Databricks
  • Services

August 2018

Aug 22

Azure SQL Data Warehouse Gen2 is now available in Australia and France regions

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure SQL Data warehouse is a fast, flexible, and secure analytics platform. The compute optimized Gen2 tier of Azure SQL Data Warehouse is now available in 23 regions. We recently made the service available in Australia Central, Australia Central 2, and France Central.

  • Features
Aug 8

Save up to 80 percent with reserved capacity and Azure hybrid benefit

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure SQL Database reserved capacity is now available for single and elastic pool databases, expanding our commitment to making Azure the most cost-effective cloud for your workloads. This new pricing option saves you up to 33 percent compared to license-included pricing by pre-paying for your SQL Database vCores for a one-year or three-year term. Save up to 80 percent when you combine reserved capacity savings with Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server.

  • Features

July 2018

Jul 16

Long-term backup retention feature of Azure SQL Database now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

The long-term backup retention feature is available in all Azure regions and provides greater flexibility in setting your retention policies and managing individual backups. Backups also now use read-access geo-redundant storage (RA-GRS) storage, which provides an even higher degree of protection for your data.

  • Features
Jul 16

Azure SQL Database supports auto-failover

NOW AVAILABLE

Auto-failover groups are now generally available for Azure SQL Database, supporting transparent geographic failover of multiple databases with automatic activation.

  • Features

May 2018

May 7

Manage Azure Cosmos DB in Azure Storage Explorer

IN PREVIEW

Using Azure Cosmos DB in Azure Storage Explorer allows users to manage Azure Cosmos DB entities, manipulate data, update stored procedures and triggers along with other Azure entities like Storage blobs and queues.

  • Features
May 7

Azure Cognitive Search

IN PREVIEW

Cognitive Search, a new preview feature in the existing Azure Search service, includes an enrichment pipeline allowing you to find rich structured information from documents. That information can then become part of your Azure Search index.

  • Features
May 7

Multimaster support with Azure Cosmos DB

IN PREVIEW

Now available in private preview, Azure Cosmos DB offers multi-master support at global scale together with low latency and high availability, tunable consistency models, and comprehensive and flexible conflict resolution support (custom, LWW, CRDTs).

  • Features

March 2018

Mar 23

Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Database for PostgreSQL are now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Database for PostgreSQL and Azure Database for MySQL are now generally available with an uptime SLA of 99.99 percent.

  • Features

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