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Azure SQL—Public preview updates for late October 2022
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late October 2022.
September 2022
Azure SQL—General availability updates for late September 2022
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late September 2022.
August 2022
Azure SQL—General availability updates for late August 2022
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL.
Azure SQL—Public preview updates for late August 2022
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late August 2022
Azure SQL—General availability updates for mid-August 2022
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL.
Azure SQL—Public preview updates for early August 2022
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in early August 2022
July 2022
Generally available: Premium-series hardware for Azure SQL Managed Instance
Leverage new Azure SQL Managed Instance premium-series hardware based on the latest Intel CPUs that offers significantly improved performance and scalability.
June 2022
Public preview: Link feature in Azure SQL MI for SQL Server 2016
SQL Server 2016 customers can now use Azure without migrating through offloading analytics or read-only workloads to Azure SQL Managed Instance (MI).
March 2022
Azure SQL—Public preview updates for late March 2022
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late March 2022.
Azure SQL—Public preview updates for mid-March 2022
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL.
Azure SQL—Public preview updates for early March 2022
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL.
February 2022
Public preview: Azure SQL updates for early February 2022
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL.
General availability: Azure SQL updates for early February 2022
Generally available enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL.
January 2022
Azure SQL—General availability updates for late January 2022
General Availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL
December 2021
Azure SQL—General availability updates for December 2021
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL for December 2021.
November 2021
Azure SQL—General availability updates for mid-November 2021
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL Managed Instance for mid-November 2021.
Azure SQL—general availability updates for early November 2021
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL Managed Instance in early November 2021.
Azure SQL: Public preview updates for early November 2021
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL Managed Instance in mid-September 2021.
Public preview updates to Azure SQL Managed Instance boosts performance, scale, and flexibility
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.
Link feature in Azure SQL Managed Instance now in limited public 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.
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