5 Reasons to Attend the European Microsoft Fabric + SQL Community Conference  This year the SQL community joins Fabric in Europe for the first time at the Microsoft Fabric + SQL Co...

Azure SQL Managed Instance is changing how TLS certificates are stored and handled in managed instances. One of those certificates was specifically tailored to support migration scenarios where SQL c...

Built-in protection for your most recent backups - enabled automatically  Today, we're excited to announce General Availability of automatic backup immutability up to the most recent 7 days of poin...

Azure SQL Database introduces Regex-based dynamic data masking, a new capability that enables flexible, pattern-driven masking for string-based columns using regular expressions through the T‑SQL REG...

Your database should be part of the same development process as the rest of your application, with source control and automation for validation and deployment. Recent releases of SQL Server Managemen...

One Migration Experience, More Flexibility Modernizing SQL Server estates is rarely a single-step journey. Organizations often operate across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments while balan...

Summary Many of Enterprises around the globe have relied on SQL Server for over 3 decades to run their mission critical business applications. Their SQL Server estates face pressure from downtime r...

The problem we're solving Previously, Microsoft Entra identities in Azure SQL Database could only be created as contained database users - principals scoped to a single database with no server-leve...

For teams thinking about long-term cryptographic resilience, this preview is especially relevant. TDE with customer-managed keys has traditionally used asymmetric RSA-based key protectors, while broa...

At a glance — Native regular expression (regex) functions in T-SQL now accept varchar(max) and nvarchar(max) inputs of up to 2 MB across all seven regex functions, including the two table-valued fu...