Updates Archives
Monthly updates for October 2020
Public preview: Up to 10 read replicas for MySQL - Flexible Server
Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server enables read-heavy workloads to scale out and be balanced across replica servers according to preferences.
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By simply checking a box, you can automatically register all existing and future SQL Server VMs in your subscription to access features designed to enable cost savings and increase manageability.
Public preview: Auditing of Microsoft support operations in Azure SQL DB and Azure SQL MI
The auditing of Microsoft support operations capability enables the audit of Microsoft support operations when accessing servers and/or databases during a support request to an audit logs destination. The use of this capability, along with auditing, enables more transparency into the workforce and allows for anomaly detection, trend visualization, and data loss prevention.
Policy to control the minimum TLS version used with Azure Storage now generally available
Secure Azure Storage HTTPS connection with minimum TLS version via policy control.
Log Analytics Linux Agent for Fall 2020 now available
A new release of the Linux Agent is now available with support fixes and a new troubleshooting tool.
SQL Server on Virtual Machines: Machine Learning with Microsoft R Open 4.0.2 now available
The latest update for Microsoft R Open 4.0.2 (downloadable for Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms) includes improvement to the performance of the merge function and adds an option to better handle zero-length arguments to the paste and paste0 functions.
New alert query examples topic in Log Analytics
The logs experience was recently updated with examples queries for common log alerts.
Azure Blob storage point-in-time restore now generally available
Azure Blob storage point-in-time restore provides continuous data protection and restoration capabilities for block blob data. This extends protection features to provide an easy way to restore to a previous date/time
Dark theme is now available for the Azure mobile app
You can choose either dark or light for your mobile app experience.
Azure portal September 2020 update
Updates include improvements to the ARM template deployment experience, a variety of updates for Azure Blob Storage, and more.
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