In this post, we’ll explain the core purpose of Dynamic Data Masking (to ease application development), how it works, and its proper use cases – as well as its limitations. If you’re considering usin...

As part of the retirement of lower TLS versions 1.0 and 1.1 and the enforcement of 1.2 as the new default minimum TLS version, we will be removing the No Minimum TLS (MinTLS = “None” or "0") option a...

A policy-driven path from enabled to enforced. Why this matters now Security and compliance programs were once built on an assumption that internal networks were inherently safer. Cloud adoption,...

How do I modernize an existing application without rewriting it? Many business-critical applications still rely on architectures where the database is the most dependable integration point. These a...

    We are excited to announce the public preview of 160 and 192vCore compute sizes for Premium-series hardware configuration in Azure SQL Database Hyperscale.  Since the introduction of Pre...

With this release, you no longer need to reference a specific key version stored in Azure Key Vault or Managed HSM when configuring Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) with customer‑managed keys. Inste...

Executive summary Automatic index compaction is a new built-in feature in the MSSQL database engine that compacts indexes in background and with minimal overhead. Now you can: Stop using sche...

Today we’re announcing a public preview that lets Azure SQL Database Import & Export services authenticate with user-assigned managed identity. Now Azure SQL Databases can perform import and export o...

We’re happy to announce that the update policy SQL Server 2025 for Azure SQL Managed Instance is now generally available (GA). SQL Server 2025 update policy contains all the latest SQL engine innovat...