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Azure Private Link is now generally available in US Government regions
Azure Private Link now includes multiple new services available in GA.
November 2019
Azure Synapse Analytics—Continuous integration and deployment with SSDT is now available
The highest requested feature for Azure Synapse Analytics is now available—SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) Database projects. This release includes support for SSDT with Visual Studio 2019, along with native platform integration with Azure DevOps, providing built-in continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) capabilities for enterprise level deployments.
Azure Private Link is now available in all regions
Azure Private Link, which provides private connectivity to Azure services, is now available in all regions.
October 2019
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 2019
Azure Private Link is now available in preview
Target availability: Q3 2019
Connect to services in your Azure virtual networks more securely and privately with Azure Private Link, now available in preview.
Monthly payment options are now available for Azure reservations
Lower your upfront payment by selecting monthly payment options—at no additional cost—when purchasing Azure reservations.
SQL Server Data Tools is now available with Visual Studio 2019 Preview
SQL Server Data Tools preview for Azure SQL Data Warehouse is now downloadable with the latest preview release of Visual Studio 2019. SQL Server Data Tools enables a stable change management and deployment experience when developing your data analytics solution using SQL Data Warehouse.
Reserved Capacity for Azure SQL Data Warehouse Now Available in Additional 18 Regions
Today, we are announcing Reserved Capacity for SQL Data Warehouse in an additional 18 regions.
June 2019
Azure Data Factory enriches PolyBase support for loading data into SQL DW
Azure Data Factory seamlessly integrates with Polybase to empower you to ingest data into SQL DW performantly. ADF now adds support for loading data from ADLS Gen2 and from Blob with VNet service endpoint using PolyBase.
May 2019
Corrected billing for Azure SQL Data Warehouse and other Azure services
We’ve corrected billing for Azure SQL Data Warehouse and other Azure services that impacted EA customers only.
Result-set Caching for Azure SQL Data Warehouse is now in preview
Result-set caching enables instant query response times while reducing time-to-insight for business analysts and reporting users
Ordered Clustered Columnstore Indexes for Azure SQL Data Warehouse is now in preview
Columnstore is a key enabler for storing and efficiently querying large amounts of data.
Workload Importance for Azure SQL Data Warehouse is now generally available
Workload Management Classification and Importance provide the ability to influence the run order of queries.
JSON data support for Azure SQL Data Warehouse is now in preview
Business analysts can now use familiar T-SQL language to query and manipulate documents that are formatted as JSON data
Dynamic Data Masking for Azure SQL Data Warehouse is now in preview
Dynamic Data Masking (DDM) prevents unauthorized access to your sensitive data in your data warehouse by obfuscating it on-the-fly in the query results, based on the masking rules you define.
April 2019
Reserved Capacity Pricing for Azure SQL Data Warehouse is now generally available
Starting today, you can now use the Azure SQL Data Warehouse Reserved Capacity pricing to reserve compute power for existing and future clusters. This option provides you savings up to 65% cDWU capacity.
March 2019
Public preview: Data Discovery & Classification for Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Data Discovery & Classification is now available in public preview for Azure SQL Data Warehouse.
Workload importance (preview) for Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Manage workload more efficiently by using workload importance. It's now available for preview in Azure SQL Data Warehouse.
January 2019
Query Store for Azure SQL Data Warehouse is now generally available
Query Store automatically captures a history of queries, plans, and runtime statistics and retains them for your review when monitoring your data warehouse. Query Store is available in all regions for all generations of Azure SQL Data Warehouse with no additional charges.
December 2018
SQL Data Warehouse integration with Informatica iPaaS on Azure
Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS) on Azure is now generally available
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