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Azure SQL: General availability updates for early June 2021
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in early June 2021
May 2021
Azure SQL Database ledger available in public preview
Use Azure SQL Database ledger (preview) to eliminate the additional cost, complexity, and performance overhead of decentralized blockchain technology and enable tamper-evidence through cryptographic verification of your centralized data store.
April 2021
Azure SQL—public preview updates for April 2021
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in April 2021.
Azure SQL—general availability updates for April 14, 2021
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL Managed Instance in April 2021.
March 2021
Public preview: Zone redundant configuration for Azure SQL Database serverless compute tier
Make your serverless Azure SQL databases resilient to a much larger set of failures, including catastrophic datacenter outages, without any changes of the application logic by selecting zone redundancy.
Service Broker message exchange for Azure SQL Managed Instance in public preview
Service Broker message exchange between Azure SQL Managed Instances (public preview) allows you to build reliable distributed applications with asynchronous message processing functionality by leveraging SQL Server engine’s native support for messaging/queuing.
Machine Learning Services on Azure SQL Managed Instance now generally available
Use machine learning capabilities on a Managed Instance of Azure SQL Database for ease of moving your data, packages, and models to a cloud ready environment fully configured for machine learning.
General availability: Dynamic data masking granular permissions for Azure SQL and Azure Synapse Analytics
Control who can access your SQL data by using dynamic data masking granular permission on your Azure SQL Database, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Azure SQL Managed Instance.
Azure Monitor SQL insights for Azure SQL in public preview
Get a single monitoring experience for all your cloud-based SQL deployments with Azure Monitor SQL insights
Long-term backup retention (LTR) for Azure SQL Managed Instance in public preview
Configure long-term backup retention for SQL Managed Instance databases and retain database backups beyond the 35 days provided by Azure SQL Managed Instance automated backups, for up to 10 years.
Azure SQL auditing to Log Analytics and Event Hub are now generally available
Auditing for Azure SQL Database and Azure Synapse Analytics to Log Analytics and Event Hub are now generally available, allowing the centralization of SQL audit logs into a single go-to-location.
Azure SQL auditing of Microsoft operations is now in general availability
Azure SQL auditing of Microsoft operations for Azure SQL Database, Azure Synapse Analytics and Azure SQL Managed Instance is now generally available, enabling more transparency into your workforce.
Public preview: Maintenance window for Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance
The maintenance window feature aligns planned maintenance updates on Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance resources to occur on predictable times during regional off-business hours.
Advance notifications for Azure SQL Database now in public preview
Prepare for planned maintenance events on your Azure SQL Database resources and minimize the impact of database failovers on your sensitive workloads with advance notifications (preview).
February 2021
Log Replay Service for Azure SQL Managed Instance in public preview
Log replay service enables continuous replication of SQL Server data to SQL Managed Instance in the cloud, the easier orchestration of workload functions, and pre-migration performance testing through a fully customizable experience.
January 2021
Confidential computing using Always Encrypted with secure enclaves now in public preview
Always Encrypted with secure enclaves enables in-place encryption and rich confidential queries on sensitive data by leveraging Intel SGX secure enclaves, available in the new DC-series hardware configuration.
December 2020
Azure Data Share snapshot sharing for SQL Database and Synapse generally available
You can now share structured data stored in relational databases and data warehouse easily and securely between internal departments, with external partners, vendors or customers for collaboration.
Private link for Azure SQL Data Sync on Azure SQL Database now in public preview
Private link enables SQL Data Sync users to choose a service managed private endpoint for the sync service to securely connect to member and hub databases during data synchronization.
Transparent Data Encryption with customer-managed keys for SQL Database Hyperscale
This feature enables bring your own key (BYOK) support for data protection at rest, using Azure Key Vault, for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale customers.
October 2020
We’re retiring Azure SQL DB Import-Export Direct Endpoints on 31 October 2023
Target retirement date: October 31, 2023
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