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Azure Data Share—Support for sharing data from Azure SQL and SQL Data Warehouse
Azure Data Share service has added support for snapshot-based sharing from Azure SQL Database and SQL Data Warehouse. It's now possible to share both structured data (from Azure SQL and SQL DW) and unstructured data (from Azure Data Lake Store and Blob storage) with centralized management and governance.
September 2017
Transparent data encryption with bring your own key (BYOK) support for Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Data Warehouse
We’re glad to announce the preview of transparent data encryption with bring your own key (BYOK) support for Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Data Warehouse.
July 2017
Azure SQL Data Warehouse Updates
Azure SQL Data Warehouse 3x compute increase with bottomless columnar storage.
August 2016
General availability: Azure Active Directory authentication for SQL Database and SQL Data Warehouse
You can use Azure Active Directory authentication to centrally manage user and group identities to authenticate with SQL Database and SQL Data Warehouse.
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