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We’re announcing the upcoming retirement of Azure Data Studio (ADS) on February 6, 2025, as we focus on delivering a modern, streamlined SQL development experience. ADS will remain supported until Fe...
Feb 06, 20258KViews
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We are thrilled to announce the general availability of our new Azure SQL Database free offer. Now, each Azure subscription includes not just one, but 10 serverless databases. Each database comes wit...
Feb 03, 20252.3KViews
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Today we are thrilled to announce General Availability (GA) of the database shrink in Azure SQL Database Hyperscale. This milestone marks another significant improvement in our Hyperscale service, pr...
Jan 29, 20251.1KViews
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We are happy to announce the Private Preview of Regular Expressions (Regex) support on Azure SQL Managed Instance (MI). This new feature brings powerful text processing capabilities to your SQL queri...
Jan 20, 2025247Views
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In the Azure SQL Database Hyperscale service tier, managing named replicas effectively is crucial to maintaining optimal performance. By monitoring log rates and understanding the impact of undersize...
Jan 16, 2025261Views
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In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, modern, flexible and real-time data integration from various sources has become more important than ever. Organizations are increasingly relying on data...
Jan 16, 2025923Views
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Service endpoint policies for Azure Storage endpoints are now generally available for Azure SQL Managed Instance subnets in all public regions.
Jan 15, 2025640Views
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We are excited to announce a significant update to the server audit feature for Azure SQL Database. We have re-architected major portions of SQL Auditing resulting in increased availability and relia...
Jan 15, 2025546Views
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We are pleased to announce a limited preview of a new query hint, ABORT_QUERY_EXECUTION. The hint is intended to be used as a Query Store hint to let administrators block future execution of known pr...
Dec 05, 20242.6KViews
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Announcing limited public preview for enhanced log throughput for Azure SQL DB Hyperscale: Up to 150 MiB/s
Dec 05, 2024444Views
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