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Monthly updates for Azure SQL Database: July 2019
Managed Instance enhances security with network traffic containment within Azure cloud
The network traffic of Azure SQL Database managed instance is now contained within Azure cloud by default. This update enhances the security and prevents exfiltration of data via Internet.
SQL Server CTP 3.2 big data cluster is now in preview
Big data clusters, one of the hero features for SQL Server 2019, is now available in preview. It combines SQL Server with Apache Spark and Hadoop Distributed File System for a unified data platform that enables analytics and AI over all data, relational and non-relational.
Introducing UTF-8 support for Azure SQL Database
Support for the widely used UTF-8 character encoding is now available as preview in Azure SQL Database, as a database-level or column-level default encoding for Unicode string data.
Azure SQL Database published the first in the industry business continuity SLA for a relational database service
Azure SQL database service has updated its service level agreement (SLA) offering guarantees for common disaster recovery metrics.
Update to Azure SQL Database serverless provides even greater price optimization
The minimum configurable auto-pause delay has decreased to 1 hour providing even greater price optimization opportunities for serverless databases.
Azure Cosmos DB ExpressRoute BGP Community now available
We are now announcing the addition of the Azure Cosmos DB community on ExpressRoute, which will allow for regional advertisements of Azure Cosmos DB.
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