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September 2023

Sep 13

General Availability: Azure SQL updates for mid-September 2023

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q3 2023

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in mid-September 2023

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features

August 2023

Aug 30

General availability: Azure SQL updates for late-August 2023

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q3 2023

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late-August 2023.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features
Aug 2

General availability: Azure SQL updates for early-August 2023 

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q3 2023

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in early-August 2023.

  • Azure SQL
  • Azure SQL Database
  • Azure SQL Managed Instance
  • Features
Aug 2

Public preview: Azure SQL updates for early-August 2023

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q3 2023

Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in early-August 2023

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Azure SQL Managed Instance
  • Azure SQL
  • Features

July 2023

Jul 25

Azure SQL—Public preview updates for mid-July 2023

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q3 2023

Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in mid-July 2023

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features

June 2023

Jun 13

Azure SQL—General availability updates for mid-June 2023

NOW AVAILABLE

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in mid-June 2023

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Azure SQL Managed Instance
  • Features

May 2023

May 23

Public preview: Azure SQL Database Hyperscale elastic pools

You can now efficiently provision and scale compute resources independent of data size by deploying multiple Azure SQL Hyperscale databases with varying workloads in elastic pools.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
May 10

Azure SQL—General availability updates for mid-May 2023

NOW AVAILABLE

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in mid-May 2023

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features
May 10

Azure SQL—Public preview updates for early-May 2023

IN PREVIEW

Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in mid-May 2023

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features

April 2023

Apr 26

Azure SQL—General availability updates for late-April 2023 

NOW AVAILABLE

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL and Azure SQL Managed Instance in late-April 2023

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Azure SQL Managed Instance
  • Features
Apr 21

Support has ended for Gen 4 hardware on Azure SQL Database

Target retirement date: March 31, 2023

Gen 4 hardware on Azure SQL Database is no longer supported, effective March 31, 2023. Databases may remain on Gen 4 configurations, albeit with limitations.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Retirements
Apr 12

Azure SQL—General availability updates for mid-April 2023

NOW AVAILABLE

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL for mid-April 2023

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features
Apr 12

Azure SQL—Public preview updates for mid-April 2023

IN PREVIEW

Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in mid-April 2023

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features

March 2023

Mar 29

Azure SQL—General availability updates for late-March 2023

NOW AVAILABLE

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late-March 2023

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features
Mar 29

General availability: Microsoft Purview DevOps policies for Azure SQL Database

NOW AVAILABLE

Purview DevOps policies can be used to assign permissions needed for performance monitoring and security auditing at scale and without direct connection to the database.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features
Mar 16

Azure SQL—General availability updates for mid-March 2023

NOW AVAILABLE

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in mid-March 2023

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features
Mar 15

Public preview: Data API builder instantly creates modern REST and GraphQL endpoints for modern databases

IN PREVIEW

Improve development velocity and efficiency via modern REST and GraphQL API using the new data API builder with support for multiple Azure databases.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Azure Database for MySQL
  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features
Mar 15

Azure SQL—Public preview updates for mid-March 2023

IN PREVIEW

Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in mid-March 2023

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Azure SQL Managed Instance
  • Features
Mar 1

Azure SQL—General availability updates for early March 2023

NOW AVAILABLE

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in early March 2023

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features

February 2023

Feb 15

Public preview: Serverless Hyperscale in Azure SQL Database

IN PREVIEW

Automatically scale compute based on workload demand using serverless for Hyperscale in Azure SQL Database.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features

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