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December 2021

Dec 15

Azure SQL—General availability updates for December 2021

NOW AVAILABLE

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL for December 2021.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features

November 2021

Nov 10

Azure SQL—Public preview updates for mid-November 2021

IN PREVIEW

Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL Managed Instance for mid-November 2021.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features
Nov 10

Azure SQL—General availability updates for mid-November 2021 

NOW AVAILABLE

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL Managed Instance for mid-November 2021.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features
Nov 2

Azure SQL—general availability updates for early November 2021

NOW AVAILABLE

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL Managed Instance in early November 2021.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 2

Azure SQL: Public preview updates for early November 2021

IN PREVIEW

Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL Managed Instance in mid-September 2021.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 2

Public preview updates to Azure SQL Managed Instance boosts performance, scale, and flexibility

IN PREVIEW

New investments in Azure SQL Managed Instance bring more performance, scale, and flexibility to your SQL workloads in this latest significant update to the service.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 2

Link feature in Azure SQL Managed Instance now in limited public preview

IN PREVIEW

The link feature in SQL Managed Instance reimagines SQL Server database replication to enable application migration with minimal downtime and offloading read-only workloads to secondaries in the cloud.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features

October 2021

Oct 13

New centralized management experience for Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server in public preview

IN PREVIEW

Introducing a new way to manage Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server centrally at an Azure subscription or account level, providing better control and optimized cost savings.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features

September 2021

Sep 22

Azure SQL Database: General availability updates for late September 2021

NOW AVAILABLE

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late September 2021.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features
Sep 15

Azure SQL—General availability updates for mid-September 2021 

NOW AVAILABLE

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL Managed Instance in mid-September 2021.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features
Sep 1

Azure SQL Migration extension in Azure Data Studio in public preview

IN PREVIEW

Migrate SQL Server to Azure SQL using Azure Data Studio (preview) for a modern open-source, cross-platform, and hybrid unifying tooling experience for data operations across SQL Server and Azure databases.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Management
Sep 1

Azure SQL - General availability updates for early September 2021 

NOW AVAILABLE

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL Managed Instance in early September 2021.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Management
  • Features
Sep 1

Azure SQL - Public preview updates for early September 2021

IN PREVIEW

Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL Managed Instance in early September 2021.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Management

August 2021

Aug 4

Azure SQL—public preview updates for early August 2021 

IN PREVIEW

Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL Managed Instance in early August 2021.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Compliance
  • Management
  • Features
Aug 4

Azure SQL—general availability updates for early August 2021 

NOW AVAILABLE

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL Managed Instance in early August 2021.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Management
  • Features

July 2021

Jul 14

Confidential computing using Always Encrypted with secure enclaves for Azure SQL Database in general availability

NOW AVAILABLE

Always Encrypted with secure enclaves helps prevent malicious admins and malware from exfiltrating sensitive data, while enabling in-place encryption and rich confidential computations, including pattern matching, range comparisons, and sorting.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Microsoft Inspire
  • Security
  • Management
  • Features

June 2021

Jun 23

Azure SQL—public preview updates for late June 2021 

IN PREVIEW

Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late June 2021.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Compliance
  • Management
  • Features
Jun 23

Azure SQL—general availability updates for late June 2021 

NOW AVAILABLE

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late June 2021

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Management
  • Features
Jun 9

Azure SQL: Public preview updates for early June 2021

IN PREVIEW

Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in early June 2021

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Management
  • Features
Jun 9

Azure SQL: General availability updates for early June 2021 

NOW AVAILABLE

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in early June 2021

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Management
  • Features

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