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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.
Introducing Azure Synapse Analytics: A limitless analytics service with unmatched time to insight
Today, we are announcing Azure Synapse Analytics, a limitless analytics service, that brings together enterprise data warehousing and Big Data analytics. It gives you the freedom to query data on your terms, using either serverless on-demand or provisioned resources, at scale.
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.
Private Link for Azure SQL Database and Data Warehouse is now in preview
Private Link enables you to connect to Azure SQL Database and Data Warehouse via a private endpoint.
September 2019
Copy Activity in Azure Data Factory supports creating a destination table automatically
Load data faster with new support from the Copy Activity feature in Azure Data Factory. Now, if you’re trying to copy data from any supported source into SQL database/data warehouse and find that the destination table doesn’t exist, Copy Activity will create it automatically.
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.
Copy data from Netezza to Azure with Azure Data Factory
Azure Data Factory now provides built-in data partitioning to copy data from Netezza.
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.
August 2019
Azure Firewall feature updates for July 2019
Here are the Azure Firewall feature updates for July 2019.
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.
Enhanced experience for Azure Advisor security recommendations
Manage your Security Center recommendations through Advisor UI, API, CLI, or PowerShell. Remediate recommendations quickly with bulk actions. Follow more than 20 new best practice recommendations for availability, performance, and cost.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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